﻿WELLINGTON PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



Fourth Annual General Meeting, ^^th January, 1871. 

 The Hon. W. B. D. Mantell, President, in the chair. 



ABSTRACT REPORT OF THE COUNCIL FOR THE ANNUAL MEETING. 



During the year eight general meetings and one special meeting have been 

 held, and communications on fifty-nine subjects made. Of these forty-four 

 have been forwarded to the Governors of the New Zealand Institute for publi- 

 cation in the third volume of the Transactions. 



The subscriptions during the year amount to £97 12s., showing an increase 

 of £25 3s. over the previous year. The statutory contribution of one-sixth of 

 the year's income (£16 5s. 4d.) has been made towards the maintenance and 

 extension of the Museum. £50 has also been devoted from the funds of the 

 Society to the improvement of the Botanic Reserve. £20 has been expended 

 in procuring additions to the library, and arrangements have been made for 

 receiving the following publications : — " Quarterly Journal of Science, " 

 '^ Popular Science Review," " jSTature," "Australasian," "Field," "Gardener's 

 Chronicle," " Builder," " Engineer," and " British Mechanic," which may be 

 consulted in the reading room at any time by members. 



The balance in the hands of the Treasurer is £Q0 10s. 7d. 



The number of members to whom the second volume of tlie Transactions 

 was sent in May last was eighty-five. 103 members are now on the roll. 



Election of Officers for 1871 : President — W. T. L. Travers, F.L.S. ; 

 Vice-Presidents— W. L. Buller, F.L.S., F.G.S., J. C. Crawford, F.G.S. ; 

 Council— J. Hector, M.D., F.R.S., J. Kebbell, W. Lyon, F.G.S., Robert 

 Hart, "W. Skey ; Hon. Secretary and Treasurer — F. M. Ollivier. 



New members — A. Allan, W. Colenso, F.L.S., James Prendergast, and 

 F. J. Knox, L.R.C.S.E. 



1. Dr. Hector called the attention of the meeting to a live Katipo (a poi- 

 sonous native spider), which had been sent from Wanganui by Mr. Walter 



