Office-Bearers for 1898.—President—Dr. W. P. Evans; Vice-presidents—Mr. R. Speight and Mr. L. Cockayne; Hon. Secretary—Professor Dendy; Hon. Treasurer—Captain Hutton; Council—Dr. Thomas, Messrs. H. R. Webb, B. M. Laing, T. W. Naylor Beckett, J. B. Mayne, and Dr. Symes.

Extracts from the Rules of the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury.

8. Members of the Institute shall pay one guinea annually as a sub scription to the funds of the Institute. The subscription shall be due on the 1st November in each year.

The Institute may also admit associates, who shall contribute five shillings annually to the funds of the Institute, and shall have all the privileges of members, except that they shall not have the power to vote, or be entitled to the annual volume of the Transactions.

9. Members may compound for all annual subscriptions of the current and future years by paying ten guineas.

15. The ordinary meetings of the Institute shall be held on the first Wednesday in each month during the months of May to October, both inclusive.