The retiring President read an address: “In memoriam Sir Julius von Haast, K.C.M.G., F.R.S., D.Sc., etc.”

The President stated that the Council of the Institute had determined to send to England for a portrait of the late Sir Julius von Haast, to be placed in the rooms of the Institute, and, further, that the Council desired to bring the fund for founding a scholarship, to perpetuate the memory of the deceased, before the members for their favourable consideration.