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Rh 25. Members of the Institute shall pay two guineas annually as a subscription to the funds of the Institute.

27. Members may compound for all annual subscriptions of the current and future years by paying thirty guineas.

34. Members shall have the privilege of reading before the Institute papers containing accounts of experiments, observations, and researches, conducted by themselves, on subjects within the scope of the Institute.

47. Every book, pamphlet, model, plan, drawing, specimen, preparation, or collection, presented to or purchased by the Institute, shall be placed in the Museum of the Institute. :66. That from and after the 1st of July, 1868, the Institute shall devote one-third of its annual revenue in or towards the formation of some local public museum or library.

—President—The Hon. J. A. Bonar; Vice-President—The Venerable Archdeacon Harper; Committee—E. Abbott, J. Aylmer, S. Beswick, B. Clapcott, G. G. Fitzgerald, J. Frew, G. W. Harvey, J. Heawood, G. Mueller, J. Rochfort, G. S. Sale, S. M. South; Treasurer and Secretary—Malcolm Fraser.

2. The objects of the Society shall be to promote the cultivation of natural history, especially with reference to this portion of New Zealand; to form a museum for the collection and preservation of botanical, zoological, and geological specimens; to acclimatize plants and animals; and to communicate with, and exchange with, other kindred societies.

3. The Society shall consist—First, of life members, i.e. persons who have at any one time made a donation to the Society of £5 or upwards, or persons who, in reward of special services rendered to the Society, have been unanimously elected as such by the Committee, or at the general half-yearly meeting. Second, of members who pay two guineas the first year and one guinea each subsequent year. Third, of members paying smaller sums, not less than ten shillings.

4. The Society shall be managed by a Committee elected from the Society, and consisting of a President, a Vice-President, a Treasurer and Secretary, and twelve members, to be chosen out of Classes 1 and 2.

13. The Committee shall have power to consider and determine all matters directly or indirectly affecting its interest, and to make such by-laws as may in their opinion be necessary for the management of the Society, provided such by-laws are not repugnant to these rules.

14. One-third of the annual revenue of the Society shall be applied in procuring books, objects of natural history or of scientific interest, for the permanent benefit of the Society and of the community.