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He reviewed the proceedings of the Society during the past year, the results of which appear in Vol. XII. of the Transactions, and on the whole considered that good work had been done. He particularly referred to many valuable papers under sections Ethnology, Zoology, and Botany, and the annual report of the New Zealand Institute, which is a yearly resume of all scientific work done in the colony; also, to the valuable paper on the Meteorology of New Zealand in the appendix, which contains the results, in a condensed form, of all the observations taken throughout the colony during the year by the Meteorological Department under Dr. Hector. He also called attention to a number of additions to the library on the table, including reports and catalogues lately issued by the Geological Survey and Colonial Museum Departments.