Annual Report for Year Ended 30th September, 1943.

The Committee presents the following report on the activities of the Nelson Philosophical Society for the year ended 30th September, 1943:—

The membership of the Society consists of 31 full members, including two recently transferred from the Wellington Branch of the Royal Society, and 19 Associate Members, making a total of 50—an increase of seven on last year's number.

Six successful meetings have been held during the year, the average attendance of members and visitors being about 50.

The following was the programme of addresses for the session:—

1942: 24th October (Annual Meeting), Mr. T. A. Glendinning, “Fermentation and Its Application to Arts and Industries.”

1943: 17th May, Presidential address by Mr. F. G. Gibbs, “Early Man”; 21st June, Dr. D. Miller, “Mosquitoes and Malaria; 19th July, Sir Theodore Rigg, public address in the Marsden Hall, “Twenty Years of Agricultural Progress in the Waimea County”; 9th August, Dr. R. O. Page, “The History and Manufacture of Leather”; 27th September, Mr. C. J. Kidson, “The Road to the Andamans.”

F. G. Gibbs

William C. Davies