Report of the Meetings of the Society. 
Report of the Meeting held 12th January. — Mr. 
Russell in the chair. 
There were 10 members present. 
Elections. — Members : A. P. Bugle ; E. Morgan ; Rev. 
H. A. Westropp. 
Associates : William A. King ; John Hous- 
ton ; Herbert Rolleston ; James Slater. 
Ridgeway & Co. — The Secretary read an extract from 
a letter dated 16th December, 1885, received from Mr. 
Walker, stating his conviction, from information he had 
received from one of Ridgeway & Co.'s trustees, that 
there would be a very small dividend for the creditors. 
Exchange of Publications. — The Secretary also read 
the following letter from the Secretary of the Anthropo- 
logic Society of Vienna, dated 13th Nov. : 
Dear Sir, — By order of the Directorate of the Anthropologic Society, 
I have the honour to inform your Directorate that the Anthropologic 
Society will be happy to enter into the correspondence proposed by you 
as we are anxious to have in our library a complete copy of all your 
printed issues. I request you be good enough to send us a complete 
series of your Timehri against any exchange of ours. 
Congress of Chambers of Commerce. — The Secretary 
laid over a communication from the London Chamber of 
Commerce inviting this colony to take part in the Con- 
gress of the Chambers of Commerce of the British Empire 
to be held in London about July next, in connection 
with the Colonial and Indian Exhibition. The matter was 
referred to the next meeting. 
Treasurer's Accounts. — The Treasurer's statement to 
