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tlie Committee on Native and other Grasses is also appended, and will 



serve to sliow the importance of the subject and the difficulties which 



surround its prosecution. The Council hopes that the revised Code of 



Rules recently adopted, and the removal of the Institute to the more 



commodious and accessible I'ooms which it now occupies, will greatly 



facilitate the operations of the Society, and enable it to pi'osecute, with 



increased vigour and success, its investigations in the various branches 



of science and philosoj^hy. 



Charles Fraser, Hon. Sec. 



Appendix No. 1. 

 Report of the Committee appointed to confer loith the Provincial Government 

 on the Institution of Lectureships in connection with the Museum. 

 The appointment of the Committee is in the following terms : — 

 *' That a Committee be appointed to communicate with the Provincial 

 Government, with a view to the establishment of an annual course of 

 lectures on Natural Science, in connection with the Museum ; the 

 Committee to consist of his Honor Mr. Justice Gresson, the Hon. John 

 Hall, Dr. Haast, Dr. TurnbuU, Rev. Canon Wilson, and Rev. Charles 

 Fraser." Owing to vai-ious circumstances the Committee has been 

 unable to have an interview with his Honor the Superintendent and 

 his Executive Council, but it has reason to believe that the Provincial 

 Government is not unfavourable to the object held in view, and 

 further believes that this object has been as effectively promoted as was 

 possible by the Committee itself, by the examination of several of its 

 members before a Select Committee of the Provincial Council. It is 

 hoped that a bill now before the Provincial Council for the establish- 

 ment upon a permanent basis of the Museum, a Public Libraiy, and 

 School of Science, will, if passed, meet the views of the Institute in 

 appointing this Committee. It is satisfactory to know that the import- 

 ance of establishing lectureships in connection with the local Museums 

 of the colony, has been formally recognized under the New Zealand 

 University Bill of this present year. 



Julius Haast. 

 Charles Fraser. 

 James S. Turnbull. 

 Appendix No. 2. 

 Report of the Committee appointed to obtain information as to Native 

 and other Grasses. 

 Your Committee, in bringing up their second Report, have to state 

 that, owing to the season of the year having been unfavourable for 



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