Sixteenth Annual Report

Meetings of the Board have been held on the following dates: 3rd August, 1883; 20th December, 1883; and 20th March, 1884.

The three members who retired from the Board in conformity with clause 6 of the Act were: Mr. W. T. L. Travers, the Hon. Mr. G. Randall Johnson, and Dr. Hector; Mr. Travers and Dr. Hector were reappointed, and the Hon. Mr. G. M. Waterhouse fills the place of the Hon. Mr. G. R. Johnson.

The members elected under clause 7 of the Act are: Mr. James McKerrow, Hon. Mr. Rolleston, and Dr. Buller.

A distinguished honorary member of the Institute has been lost in Dr. Ferdinand von Hochstetter, the news of whose death lately reached here. Dr. Hochstetter was among the first to be elected in 1870. There are now three vacancies in the roll of honorary members.

The following are the number of members now on the books of the Institute:—

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The volumes of Transactions now in stock are: Vol. I. (second edition), 400; vol. II., none; vol. III., none; vol. IV., none; vol. V., 48; vol. VI., 47; vol. VII., 146; vol. VIII., none; vol. IX., 150; vol. X., 180; vol. XI., 60; vol. XII., 65; vol. XIII., 68; vol. XIV., 90; vol. XV., 203; vol. XVI., not fully distributed.

The printing of Volume XVI. of Transactions of the year was commenced the latter end of January and completed the end of April, and issued early in May. The volume contains fifty-seven articles, and also addresses and

abstracts of articles which are included in the Proceedings and Appendix. There are 639 pages of letter-press and forty-four plates. The following is a comparison of the contents of the volume with that for the previous year:—

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The Honorary Treasurer's statement of accounts is appended, from which it will be seen that there is a liability amounting to £67 16s. 11d., the balance due on account of printing of vol. XVI, against which there is a sum of £39 5s. 1 ½d. in the hands of the London agent, making a deficiency on the year's accounts of £28 11s. 9 ½d.

James Hector, Manager.

Wm. F. Drummond Jervois