Report of Honorary Editor.

At the time when I was appointed Honorary Editor of the Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, arrangements had already been made for the publication of the final part of Volume 63, and the proofs had been revised. There were several papers on hand, and a few of these were ready for publication.

Most of the proofs for Volume 64, Part 1, are now in the page form, and that Part will shortly be published.

The papers for Part 2 of the same volume have been sent to the printer.

Some of the papers that are submitted for publication are of great length. It is impossible to accept some of them for that reason. Authors must, at the present time, reduce their papers as much as possible without omission of important matter. One paper is being published in four parts because of its great length. It is questionable whether this practice should be continued.

P. Marshall,