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library by purchase number 128 volumes. The Council has cor- 
responded with the other affiliated societies of the New Zealand 
Institute, asking if they would co-operate in suggesting to the 
Board of Governors the desirability of publishing the transactions 
either quarterly or half-yearly. The majority of the replies were 
favourable, but as the societies were not unanimous, the Council 
did not consider it advisable to proceed with the matter. The 
Hon. W. Rolleston has been chosen by the Council to vote at the 
election of the Board of Governors of the New Zealand Institute 
The Council recommended Mr. A. Russel Wallace, as an honorary 
member of the New Zealand Institute, in consideration of his re- 
searches into the origin of the flora and fauna of New Zealand in 
his ‘Geographical Distribution,’ and his ‘Island Life.’ The 
Honorary Treasurer submits the balance-sheet, which shows total 
receipts for the year of £197 19s. 2d.; expenditure, £168 5s. 11d. ; 
balance, £29 13s. 3d.” 
The following were elected officers and council for the ensuing 
year :—President, Prof. F. W. Hutton; Vice-presidents, Messrs. 
E. Dobson and R. W. Fereday ; Hon. Treasurer, Mr, W. M. Mas- 
kell; Hon. Secretary, Mr. G. Gray; Council: Prof. J. von Haast, 
WMessrs. «C2; Chilton, T...S.; Lambert, :T.:Crook;'J. Inglis, and Dr. 
Symes ; Auditor, Mr. C. R. Blakiston. | 
The retiring president then read his address, which dealt with 
the rise and progress of the Society from its earliest infancy in 
1862. 
Christchurch, 30th November, 1882.—Prof. F. W. Hutton, 
President, in the chair. 
The President announced that Prof. von Haast had resigned 
his position on the Council of the Institute, and that Mr G. Hog- 
ben had been elected to fill the vacancy. 
Papers—(1) ‘‘On two new Isopods,” by Chas. Chilton, M.A. 
In this paper the following two Isopods were described :—(a) Cymo- 
docea covdiforaminalis, sp. nov., in which the lateral portions of the 
abdomen on each side of the terminal notch are produced back- 
wards and inwards so as to meet in the median, so that the ter- 
minal notch appears as a heart-shaped opening in the end of the 
abdomen. (b) Faera nove-zealandie, sp. nov., agreeing well with the 
characters of Faeva, except that the terminal pleopoda are lateral, 
being situated at some distance from each other, in this resembling 
Fania or Asellus. Both species from Lyttelton Harbour. 
(2) ‘On two Marine Mites,” by Chas, Chilton, M.A. This 
paper contained the descriptions of two mites found between tide- 
marks at Lyttelton Harbour. They are both referred to the genus 
Halacarus (Gosse), which contains two English marine species. 
The New Zealand species are H. parvus, sp. nov., and H. truncipes, 
sp. nov. 
(3) ‘“ On some of the Diatomaceous deposits of New Zealand,” 
by Mr. J. Inglis. The deposits described in this paper were from 
(a) Lake Sumner, in which there are thirty-six species, two new to 
science, Tvicevatium trifoliatum and Surivella contorta, figured and 
described by English diatomists in scientific journals; (b) Wainui, 
Akaroa Harbour, eleven species ; (c) Dunedin, near Green Island, 
chiefly of one species, Eucyonema cespitosum; (d) Cust Valley, N. 
