Incorporated Societies. xvii 



25. Members o£ the Institute shall pay two guineas annually as a subscription to the 

 funds of the Institute. 



27. Members may compound for all annual subscriptions of the current and future 

 years by paying thirty guineas. 



34. Members shall have the privilege of reading before the Institute papers containing 

 accounts of experiments, observations, and researches, conducted by themselves, on subjects 

 within the scope of the Institute. 



47. Every book, pamphlet, model, plan, drawing, specimen, preparation, or collection, 

 presented to or purchased by the Institute, shall be placed in the Musexim of the Institute. 



QQ. That from and after the 1st of July, 1868, the Institute shall devote one-third of 

 its annual revenue in or towards the formation of some local public museum or library. 



WESTLAND NATUEALISTS' AND ACCLIMATIZATION SOCIETY. 



Office-Bearees. — President — The Hon. J. A. Bonar ; Vice-President — 

 The Venerable Archdeacon Harper ; Committee — E. Abbott, J. Aylmer, 

 S. Beswick, B. Clapcott, G-. Gr. Fitzgerald, J. Erew, G-. "W. Harvey, 

 J. Heawood, Gr. Mueller, J. Eochfort, Gr. S. Sale, S. M. South ; Treasurer 

 and Secretary — Malcolm Eraser. 



JExtract from the Rules of the Westland Naturalists' and Acclimatization Society. 



2. The objects of the Society shall be to promote the cultivation of natural history, 

 especially with reference to this portion of New Zealand ; to form a museum for the 

 collection and preservation of botanical, zoological, and geological specimens ; to acclima- 

 tize plants and animals ; and to communicate with, and exchange with, other kindred 

 societies. 



3. The Society shall consist — First, of life members, i.e. persons who have at any one 

 time made a donation to the Society of £5 or upwards, or persons who, in reward of special 

 services rendered to the Society, have been u.nanimously elected as such by the Committee, 

 or at the general half-yearly meeting. Second, of members who pay two guineas the first 

 year and one guinea each subsequent year. Third, of members paying smaller sums, not 

 less than ten shillings. 



4. The Society shall be managed by a Committee elected from the Society, and con- 

 sisting of a President, a Vice-President, a Treasurer and Secretary, and twelve members, to 

 be chosen out of Classes 1 and 2. 



13. The Committee shall have power to consider and determine all matters directly 

 or indirectly affecting its interest, and to make such by-laws as may in their opinion be 

 necessary for the management of the Society, provided such by-laws are not repugnant to 

 these rules. 



14. One-third of the annual revenue of the Society shall be appHed in procuring books, 

 objects of natural history or of scientific interest, for the permanent benefit of the Society 

 and of the community. 



BY AUTHOEITY : GEOEGE DIDSBUET, GOTEENMENT PEINTEE. 



