expenses incurred by the research worker, including salary
or endowment of assistant, but not salary for the grantee
himself. Plants, books, apparatus, chemicals, &c., purchased
for applicants are to remain the property of the Institute
and eventually to form a loan collection of apparatus in the
manner now practised by the Royal Society of London.
First method of initiating researches: Applications shall
be invited for grants in aid of research to be specified by
applicants.
Second method of initiating researches: The Governors of
the Institute shall suggest from time to time subjects the
investigation of which is desirable, and ask capable investigators
to undertake such researches, the Institute paying
for apparatus, material, and working-expenses, including
assistance.
9. All applications for grants shall come through some
incorporated society.
10. In the case of a refusal to recommend a grant, the
standing committee shall not give any reasons for its refusal,
unless such reason is stated in the minutes of the standing
committee's meeting.
FELLOWSHIP REGULATIONS.
26. (a.) The consent of the candidate must be obtained
in writing.
The information regarding each candidate shall be condensed
to one foolscap sheet of typewritten matter.
When a candidate is proposed by more than one society it
shall be sufficient to circulate to voters the information
supplied by one society.
Subsection E shall be rescinded, and the following inserted:

Method of Selection in Subclause (b) and of Election in
Subclause (d).
Names of Candidates, in Alphabetical Order. | X
--- | ---
APPLE, CHARLES | .. .. ..
BROWN, JOHN | .. .. ..
SMITH, JAMES | .. .. ..
There are vacancies to be filled. Place a cross in
the column marked X against the name of each candidate
for whom you wish to vote. The vote will be invalid if--
(a.) More than the required number is voted for on the
paper:
(b.) The voter signs the voting-paper:
(c.) The voting-paper is not returned on the date announced.
CARTER BEQUEST.
That the fund known as the "Carter Bequest," consisting
of the principal originally placed by the Board of Governors
in the hands of the Public Trustee, together with the interest
accrued thereon, be withdrawn from the Public Trustee and
reinvested in such securities as provided for by legislation
covering trust moneys, power to arrange details and to act
being given jointly to the Hon. Secretary and the Hon.
Treasurer acting conjointly.
HECTOR MEMORIAL FUND
That the fund known as the "Hector Memorial Fund," consisting
of the principal originally placed by the Board
of Governors in the hands of the Public Trustee, together
with the interest accrued thereon, be withdrawn from the
Public Trustee and reinvested in such securities as provided
for by legislation covering trust moneys, power to arrange
details and to act being given jointly to the Hon. Secretary
and the Hon. Treasurer acting conjointly.
HUTTON MEMORIAL FUND.
That the fund known as the "Hutton Memorial Fund,"
consisting of the principal originally placed by the Board
of Governors in the hands of the Public Trustee, together
with the interest accrued thereon, be withdrawn from the
Public Trustee and reinvested in such securities as provided
for by legislation covering trust moneys, power to arrange
details and to act being given jointly to the Hon. Secretary
and the Hon. Treasurer acting conjointly.
That until the Hutton Memorial Fund reaches the sum of
£1,000 not less than 1 per cent. on the capital invested be
added each year to the principal.
HAMILTON MEMORIAL FUND.

1. The fund placed in the hands of the Board by the Wellington Philosophical Society shall be called the "Hamilton
   Memorial Fund" in memory of the late Augustus Hamilton,
   Esq. Such fund shall consist of the moneys subscribed and
   granted for the purpose of the memorial and all other funds
   which may be given or granted for the same purpose.
2. The fund shall be vested in the Institute. The Board
   of Governors of the Institute shall have the control thereof,
   and shall invest the same in any securities proper for trust
   moneys.
3. The memorial shall be a prize, to be called the "Hamilton
   Memorial Prize," the object of which shall be the encouragement
   of beginners in pure scientific research in New Zealand.
4. The prize shall be awarded at intervals of not less than
   three years by the Governors assembled in annual meeting,
   but in no case shall an award be made unless in the opinion
   of the Governors some contribution deserving the honour
   has been made. The first award shall be made at the annual
   meeting of the Governors in 1923.
5. The prize shall be awarded for original pure scientific
   research work, carried out in New Zealand or in the Islands
   of the South Pacific Ocean, which has been published within
   the five years preceding the first day of July prior to the
   annual meeting at which the award is made. Such publication
   may consist of one or more papers, and shall include the
   first investigation published by the author. No candidate
   shall be eligible for the prize who prior to such period of five
   years has published the result of any scientific investigation.
6. The prize shall consist of money. Until the principal
   of the fund amounts to £100, one-half of the interest shall
   be added annually to the principal and the other half shall
   be applied in payment of the prize. So soon as the said
   principal amounts to £100 the whole of the interest thereon
   shall be applied in payment of the prize, in each case after
   the payment of all expenses necessarily incurred by the
   Governors in the investment and administration of the said
   fund and award of the said prize.
7. A candidate for the prize shall send to the Hon.
   Secretary of the New Zealand Institute, on or before the
   30th day of June preceding the date of the annual meeting
   at which the award is to be made, an intimation of his
   candidature, together with at least two copies of each publication
   on which his application is based.
8. Whenever possible the prize shall be presented in some
   public manner.
   HONORARY MEMBERS.
   Vacancies in the list of honorary members shall be announced
   at each annual meeting of the Board of Governors, and such
   announcement be communicated as early as possible to each
   incorporated society, and each such society shall on or before
   the 1st December nominate one person for each vacancy as
   honorary member, and the election shall take place at the
   next annual meeting of the Board of Governors.
   The foregoing regulations were adopted at a general meeting
   of the Board of Governors of the New Zealand Institute held
   at Wellington on the 30th of January, 1923.
   P. MARSHALL, President.
   27th April, 1925.
   FELLOWS OF THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE.
   New Zealand Institute,
   Wellington, 6th May, 1925.
   It is hereby notified that at the annual meeting of the
   Board of Governors of the New Zealand Institute, held
   on 27th January, 1925, the following were elected to the
   Fellowship of the Institute:-
   Professor J. Macmillan Brown, M.A., LL.D., Chancellor of
   the University of New Zealand.
   Te Rangi Hiroa (P. H. Buck), D.S.O., M.D., Ch.B. (N.Z.).
   M. WOOD, Assistant Secretary.
   NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore
   subsisting between us as Land Agents, carrying on
   business at Government Life Insurance Buildings, 99 Queen
   Street, Auckland, has been dissolved by mutual consent as
   from the thirteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred
   and twenty-five.
   Dated this 13th day of May, 1925.
   J. A. ROBERTSON.
   W. C. BESKY.
   Witness to the signatures of James Alexander Robertson
   and William Carl Besky—P. A. Spurdle, Solicitor, Auckland.
   RESOLUTION.
   The following regulations were laid before the members of
   the Hawke's Bay Trotting Club (Incorporated) at a meeting
   held on the 2nd day of May, 1925, at Hastings, with a re-