Publication Committee Report.

The Publication Committee begs to submit the following report for the year:—

Seventy papers were forwarded for consideration; of these, fifty-two were published in the Transactions (Vol. 45), and two were published in abstract in the Proceedings; one was published in the “Journal of the Polynesian Society”; several of the others were withdrawn, and the rest were declined The Committee regrets that owing to the straitened finances of the Institute it was not possible to publish some papers that had been sent in, requiring a considerable number of illustrations

Volume 45 of the Transactions was issued on the 9th June, and contains 490 pages of text and 17 plates (one coloured), besides a large number of illustrations in the text

Bulletin No. 3, Part I, “Studies in the Bryology of New Zealand,” by H. N. Dixon, M.A., F.L.S., of Northampton, England, was issued on the 30th June It contains 29 pages of text and 4 plates, which were printed from blocks prepared by West, Newman, and Co., in England. The MS. for a second part of the bulletin, containing the continuation of Mr. Dixon's valuable investigations on the New Zealand mosses, has been recently received.

The two papers on New Zealand Coleoptera by Major Broun, the publication of which as Bulletins was authorized at last annual meeting of the Board of Governors, were sent to the printer early in the year, but owing to pressure of other work have not yet been published. Major Broun has forwarded this year another long paper on the same subject, which the Committee suggests should be issued uniform with the others in bulletin form.

Fifty-five papers have been received for the next volume of the Transactions, and a considerable number of these have already been sent on to the printer The quantity of matter contained in these papers seems to be less than the average of past years.