686 Proceedings. 



14. " On the Degree of Solubility of certain Earthy Carbonates in pure 

 Water," by William Skey. (Transactions, p. 452.) 



15. "On the Butterflies of New Zealand," by Arthur Gardiner Butler, 

 F.L.S., etc. Communicated by John D. Enys, F.G.S. [Trans., p. 263.) 



16.1^," Notes on the Whales of the New Zealand Seas," by James Hector, 

 C.M.G., M.D., F.E.S. [Transactions, p. 331.) 



Annual, General Meeting. 2nd February, 1878. 

 W. T. L. Travers, M.H.E,, F.L.S., President, in the chau-. 

 Minutes of last annual general meeting read and confirmed. 



ABSTRACT REPORT OF COUNCIL. 



During the year nine general meetings were held in the lecture-hall at the Colonial 

 Museum, which was kindly lent to the Society by the Governors of the New Zealand 

 Institute. 



Forty-eight papers were read on the following subjects : — Geology, 8 ; Zoology, 13 ; 

 Botany, 15 ; Chemistry, 4 ; Miscellaneous, 8. 



The total number of members is 221, of whom 29 were elected during the year. 



The Council record with regret the death of the following members : — Alfred 

 Ludlam, George Moore, and E. P. Orme, C.E. 



The Society's Library has been added to during the year, and a catalogue is being 

 prepared for printing. Several donations to the library are acknowledged with thanks 

 from the Philadelphia Exhibition Commissioners, Dr. Hector, H. Siegel, of Vienna, and 

 Professor Liversidge, Hon. Sec. of the Eoyal Society, N.S.W. 



The Statement of Accounts shows that there is a balance to the credit of the Society 

 of £99 2s. 2d., while a sum of £31 10s. (being one-sixth of the Society's income) has been 

 handed to the New Zealand Institute in compliance with the rules. 



Election of Officers for 1878. — President — Thomas Kirk, F.L.S. ; 

 Vice-presidents — J. Carruthers, M. Inst. C.E., A. K. Newman, M.B., 

 M.E.C.P. ; Council— J -Simes Hector, C.M.G., M.D., F.E.S., J. C. Crawford, 

 F.G.S., W. T. L. Travers, F.L.S., Dr. Duller, C.M.G., F.L.S., C. Eous 

 Marten, F.M.S., F. W. A. Skae, M.D., F.E.C.S.E., Martin Chapman ; 

 Axulitor — Arthur Baker ; Secretary and Treasurer — E. B. Gore. 



The following papers were taken as read : — 



1. "On Floods in Lake Districts and Flooded Elvers in general, with 

 Methods adopted for their Prevention and Control," by H. P. Higginson, 

 M. Inst. C.E. [Transactions, p. 180.) 



2. " On Paper Currency, being a Eeply to a Paper by John Carruthers, 



M. Inst. C.E,"- by J. Young. 



* Ante, p. 24. 



