Minutes of Annual Meeting of The Board of Governors
Held in
Dunedin on the 28th January, 1926.

The annual meeting of the Board of Governors of the New Zealand Institute was held in the Otago University on Thursday, 28th January, 1926 at 10 a.m.

Present—

President, Dr. P. Marshall, and the following governors:—

Representing the Government: Dr. Chas. Chilton, and Mr. B. C. Aston.

Representing the Wellington Philosophical Society: Professor H. B. Kirk.

Representing the Auckland Institute: Professors H. W. Segar, and F. P. Worley.

Representing the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury: Professor C. Coleridge Farr, and Mr. A. M. Wright.

Representing the Otago Institute: Professor Park and Hon. G. M. Thomson, M.L.C.

Representing the Hawkes Bay Philosophical Institute: Mr. H. Hill.

Representing the Nelson Institute: Professor T. H. Easterfield.

Apologies for absence were received from Dr. J. A. Thomson, Mr. M. A. Eliott, Hon. Treasurer, Mr. G. V. Hudson, and Dr. L. Cockayne.

Roll Call.—The Hon. Secretary called the Roll.

Presidential Address.—The President gave his presidential address in the evening at the meeting at which the Science Congress was opened. It was resolved to publish the address in the Transactions.

Notices of Motion.—These were called for and dealt with in their proper places.

Incorporated Societies' Reports and Balance-sheets.—The following reports and balance-sheets were received and were laid on the table: Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, for the year ending 31st October, 1925; Auckland Institute, for the year ending 5th February, 1925; Wellington Philosophical Society, for the year ending 30th September, 1925; Nelson Philosophical Society, for the year ending 31st October, 1925; Hawkes Bay Philosophical Institute, for the year ending 31st December, 1925; Otago Institute, for the year ending 30th November, 1925. It was resolved that the reports be forwarded to the Hon. Treasurer for his perusal and report as to whether they are in order.

Standing Committee's Report.—This was read and adopted.