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The adjourned meeting was held in the Dominion Museum, Wellington, on Thursday, 4th February, 1909, at 10.30 a.m.

Mr. A. Hamilton, Present Mr. G. M. Thomson, President (in the chair) Mr. M. Chapman, Professor Easterfield, Mr. T. H. Gill, Mr. J. W. Joynt, Mr. W. Wilson, Mr. H. Hill, Mr. E. Tregear, Mr. John Young, Dr. L. Cockayne, Professor W. B. Benham, Mr. R. Speight, and the Secretary (Mr. Thomas King).

A letter, dated 29th December, 1908, was received from the Department of Internal Afiairs, notifying the appointment (published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 23rd December) of Messrs. J. W. Joynt and E. Tregear members of the Board of Governors of the New Zealand Institute under The New Zealand Institute Act, 1908."

The President welcomed Mr. Speight on taking his seat on the Board as " for the first time.

An apology from Mr. James Stewart for non-attendance was read.

The minutes of the last annual meeting were confirmed the minutes of the Standing Committee meetings held on the 12th November, the 24th July, and the the 4th December, 1908, and the 25th January, 1909, were read minutes of the annual meeting of the 28th January last were read and confirmed.

The Secretary explained the circumstances connected with the telegraphic The explanation was advices of the postponement of the annual meeting. considered satisfactorv. The annual report and annual statement of receipts and expenditure The report and statement were as follows " The New Zealand The fifth annual meeting of the Board of Governors under

were- then read.



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Institute Act, 1903," was held in the Dominion Museum, Wellington, on the 30th January, 1908, and was attended by fourteen members. The President, 'Mw G. M. Thomson. F.L.8., F.C.S., was in the chair. It was re^jorted that Messrs. Jolin Young and Augustus Hamilton, the two retiring

Government, had been reappointed, and that the follomng representaMessrs. D. Petrie elected by the societies affiUated to the Institute and J. Stewart (Auckland Institute) Professor T. H. Easterfield and Mr. Martin ChapProfessor Charles Chilton and Dr. C. C. man, K.C. (Wellington Philosophical Society) Farr (Philosophical Institute of Canterbury) Professor W. B. Benham and Mr. G. M. Thomson (Otago Institute) ; Mr. H. Hill (Hawke's Bay Philosophical Institute) ; Dr. L. Cockayne (Nelson Institute) ; Islx. T. H. Gill (Westland Institute) ; and Mr. Kenneth nominees tives

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Wilson (Manawatu Philosophical Society). The following officers were elected for 1909 President, Mr. G. M. Thomson, Hon. Treasurer, Mr. Martin Chapman, K.C. Secretary, Mr. Thomas F.L.S., F.C.S. Hon. Librarian, Mr. Hon. Editor of Transactions, Mr. G. M. Thomson King Publications Committee, Professor C. Chilton, Professor W. B. Augustus Hamilton Benham, Dr. C. C. Farr, and the Hon. Editor. The honorary members elected v^ere Dr. L. Diels, of Berlin the Rev. T. R. R. Steb:













and Mi'. E. Meyrick, B.A., F.R.S., of ^Marlborough bing, F.R.S., of Tunbridge Wells There are now twenty-nine honorary members on the roU, and the College, Wilts. meeting will therefore be asked to elect one new member.