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Election op Officers for 1874. — President — Julius Haast, Ph.D., F.R.S.; 

 Vice-Presidents — LI. Powell, M.D., G. W. Hall ; Council — His Honour Mr. 

 Justice Gresson, W. Montgomery, R. W. Fereday, Dr. J. S. Coward, H. J. 

 Tancred, Rev. J. W. Stack ; Hon. Treasurer — J. Inglis; Auditors — J. Palmer, 

 R. Wilkin ; Hon. Secretary — C. M. Wakefield. 



His Honour W. Rolleston, B.A., was chosen to vote in the election of the 

 Board of Governors for the ensuing year, in accordance with Clause 7 of the 

 New Zealand Institute Act. 



Extra Meeting, ith December, 1873. 

 Julius Haast, Ph.D., F.R.S., President, in the chair. 



1. " On the Birds of New Zealand " (Part IV.), by T. H. Potts, F.L.S. 

 (^Transactions., p. 139.) 



2. " On Cheimarnchthys /osteri, a New Genus belonging to the New 

 Zealand Fresh-water Fishes," by Julius Haast, Ph.D., F.R.S., Director of the 

 Canterbury Museum. (Transactions, p. 103.) 



3. " Notes on the Ornithology of New Zealand," by Walter L. Buller, 

 D.Sc, F.L.S. {Transactions, p. 112.) 



4. " List of the Lepidoptera recorded as having been found in New Zealand 

 previous to the Year 1871," by R. W. Fereday, Corresponding Member Ent. 

 Soc. Lond. (Tratisactions, p. 171.) 



Dr. Haast exhibited a skeleton of Aptornis. 



First Meeting. 5th March, 1874. 



Julius Haast, Ph.D., F.R.S., President, in the chair. 



Nev} members. — Hon. E. W. Stafibrd, Hon. J. Barton A. Acland, Rev. 

 W. J. Habens, John Anderson junr., C. C. Corfe. 



The President delivered the following 



ADDRESS. 



When two years ago you kindly assented to my request to elect some other 

 member of our society as your President, I thought that you would continue 

 to do so at least for several years more, hoping that under those circumstances 

 we should have been privileged to listen to a series of addresses for the 

 opening of each session, in which the pi'esident elect would have given us, 

 either the result of his own individual studies, or the experience obtained 

 during the performance of his professional duties. However, whatever may 



