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meetings in Christchurch in the autumn of 1919. The intention is to hold 
a series of meetings on the lines of those of the British Association. 
Co-ordination of Science and Industry. 
It was resolved that this meeting of the Board of Governors of the New 
Zealand Institute considers it an essential part of the scheme for scientific 
and industrial research that the proposed Board should be a trust to 
administer public and other funds given for the purpose for which it is con¬ 
stituted, and that for the first five years its finance should not be subjected 
to any amendment by Parliament, although duly audited. 
Board of Science and Art. 
The annual meeting of the Board of Science and Art took place in 
Wellington on the 30th January, 1918. The following are the matters 
dealt with of a scientific bearing. 
Publications. 
The report of the Publication Committee, which was adopted, stated 
that the present position in regard to various publications previously recom¬ 
mended by the Board for publication was as follows :— 
J. C. Andersen : The Place-names of Banks Peninsula. G. M. 
Thomson : A History of Naturalization of Animals and Plants 
in New Zealand. —The Minister decided that these should stand 
over until the end of the war. 
H. Rands and W. 0. R. Gilling : New Zealand Brown Coals, with 
Special Reference to their Use (a) in Gas-producers and (b) for 
Low-temperature Distillation. —Professor W. P. Evans has com¬ 
pleted the editing of this report, and the Minister has approved 
of its publication as the first bulletin of the Board of Science and 
Art. 
H. V. Rowe : Refractory Clays of Canterbury. — The manuscript of 
this report has been lodged in the manuscript series of the 
Dominion Museum Library, and a notice to this effect appears 
in the New Zealand Journal of Science and Technology A 
A. B. Jamieson : The Technical Analysis of Auckland Clays .— 
This report is still in the hands of the editors, Professors Thomas 
and Worley, of Auckland. 
G. M. Thomson : History of the Portobello Marine Fish-hatchery .— 
No recommendation from the Marine Department has yet been 
received. 
J. L. Elmore : The Aboriginal Rock-paintings of New Zealand .— 
The Minister approved the recommendation of the Board that 
this should be published as a bulletin of the Dominion Museum. 
Mr. Elmore, on returning to America, promised to send an 
address but has not done so, and the matter is at present in 
abeyance. 
* Cf . this Journal , vol. 1, No. 1, p. 4. 
