Seventeenth Annual Report.

Meetings of the Board were held on the following dates: 30th September, 1884; 3rd February, and 13th May, 1885.

The members of the Board who retired in conformity with clause 6 of the Act were: The Hon. Mr. Waterhouse, Mr. Travers, and Mr Mason, and these gentlemen were reappointed as Governors of the Institute by His Excellency.

The members elected to the Board for the current year by the incorporated societies are: Dr. Buller, Mr. James McKerrow, and Mr. W. M. Maskell.

The following additions were made to the honorary members of the Institute: Professor Asa Gray, Richard Bowdler Sharp, M.A., F.L.S., and R. A. Wallace, F.L.S.

The members now on the roll of the Institute are:—

The volumes of Transactions now in stock are: Vol. I. (second edition), 395; Vol. V., 44; Vol. VI., 43; Vol. VII., 140; Vol. IX., 145; Vol. X., 176; Vol. XI., 55; Vol. XII., 62; Vol. XIII., 63; Vol. XIV., 85; Vol. XV., 198; Vol. XVI., 230; Vol. XVII., not yet fully distributed.

The printing of Vol. XVII. was commenced in February, and completed and issued early in May. It contains fifty-five articles, and also addresses and abstracts of articles which are included in the Proceedings and Appendix. There are 536

pages and twenty 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. There is still a small amount due on account of the last volume, but, on the other hand, there is a balance to the credit of the Institute in the hands of the London Agent.

Approved by the Board.

Wm. F. Drummond Jervois, Chairman.

James Hector, Manager.
18th August, 1885.