Report of Council.

In consequence of the extensive alterations and additions that have been lately carried on in the Colonial Museum, the Society was deprived of the use of the Maori house as a meeting room, but through the courtesy of His Honor the Superintendent, the Provincial Council Chamber was placed at the disposal of the Council, and there most of the meetings have been held. The Council begs to record its sense of the valuable accommodation thus afforded.

The first meeting was held on the 7th August, 1875, when the session was opened by an address from the President, Dr. Buller, C.M.G., in which he reviewed the practical work done by the Society during the past year, and traced the progress of scientific research in this Colony since the resuscitation of the Society in 1859. Five meetings have taken place, at which the following papers and communications were read and discussed.