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A Meeting of the Council was held at New Plymouth, 21st June, 1907.

Present: The President, Messrs. W. Kerr, F. P. Corkill, J. H. Parker, W. L. Newman, and W. H. Skinner.

It was reported that acting on the decision come to at the last meeting, several Societies, Public Libraries, Institutions, Government Departments, &c., that have heretofore received the ‘Journal’ free, had been notified that the Society could no longer continue to supply them on the same terms. As a consequence thereof, several Institutions, &c., &c., had agreed to subscribe to the ‘Journal,’ i.e., to become members of the Society, as follows:

• The Auckland Institute.
• The Philosophical Institute of Canterbury.
• The Philosophical Institute of Otago.
• The Christchurch Museum.
• The Public Library, Melbourne.
• The Public Library, Wellington.
• The Hon. the Minister for Education.
• The Hon. the Colonial Secretary.

The following new member was elected:—

• J. B. Jack, Esq., Reserves Agent, New Plymouth.

The following papers have been received for publication:—

• 295 Tahitian Astronomy. Miss Teuira Henry.
• 296 Ruatapu, Son of Uenuku. Hare Hongi.
• 297 Ruatapu, Whiro and Toi. Hare Hongi.
• 298 Time, and a Generation. Hare Hongi.
• 299 A Maori Cosmogony. Translated by Hare Hongi.
• 300 Tuhoe: The Children of the Mist. Elsdon Best.

It was reported that the publication of the ‘Journal’ will in future be undertaken by Mr. Thomas Avery, of New Plymouth.

Books, &c., received:—

• 2085-92 The Geographical Journal, London. October, '96 to May, '97.
• 2093 The Queensland Geographical Journal. Vol. xxi.
• 2094 The Victorian Geographical Journal. Vols. xxiii. and xxiv.
• 2095 Fourteenth Annual Report—Hawaiian Historical Society.
• 2096 Transactions—Lit. and Hist. Society of Quebec. No. 26.
• 2097 Murihiku, 1905. By Hon. R. McNab, M.H.R.
• 2098 Records—Australian Museum. Vol. vi., No. 4.
• 2099 Nests and Eggs of Birds—Australian Museum. Vol. ii., pt. 1.
• 2100 Fifty-second Annual Report, 1906—Australian Museum.
• 2101-2 Archivio per l'Anthropologia, &c. Vol. xxxvi., pts. 2 and 3.
• 2103-5 Science of Man. March. May, 1907.
• 2106 Transactions and Proceedings—Japan Society. Vol. vii., pt. 2.

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• 2107 Edouard Piette (1827-1906). Presented by H. Fischer.
• 2108 Fibules Pléistocènes—by Ed. Piette. Presented by H. Fischer.
• 2109 Le Chevètre (extrait de “L'Anthropologie.” Vol. xvii).
• 2110-3 Bulletins—Société D'Anthropologie de Paris. Vol. vi., pt. 4, 5, 6, vol. vii., pt. 1, 2.
• 2114-16 Mitteilungen—Anthropologischen Gesellschaft, Vienna. Baud xxxvi.—5, 6, Baud xxxviii.—1.
• 2117-23 Na Mata. November, 1906 to May, 1907.
• 2124-32 Revue—Ecole D'Anthropologie, Paris. August, 1906, to April, 1907.
• 2133-38 Journal—Royal Colonial Institute. Vol. xxxviii, parts 1 to 6.
• 2139-42 The American Antiquarian. Vol. xxviii., No. 5 and 6, vol. xxix., No. 1 and 2.
• 2143 Journal—Buddhist Text Society. Vol. vii., part 4.
• 2144 Records—Canterbury Museum. Fishes of N.Z. Vol. i., part 1.
• 2145-51 La Géographie. Vol. xiii., 1 to 6, vol. xiv, 1.
• 2152 Journal—The Anthropological Institute. Vol. xxxvi., Jan. to June, 1906.
• 2153 Transactions—Department of Archæology, University of Pennsylvania. Vol. ii., part 1.
• 2154-62 Memorias—Real Academia de Ciencias y Artes, Barcelona. Vol. vi., No. 1 to 9.
• 2163 Boletin—Real Academia de Ciencias y Artes, Barcelona. Vol. ii., No. 9.
• 2164 Dagh Register—Casteel Batavia, 1678. Bataviaash Genootschap.
• 2165 Hct Halifoersch. Bataviaasch Genootschap. Deel lvi.
• 2166 Notulen. Bataviaasch Genootschap. Deel xlvi., av. 1.
• 2167-8 Tijdschrift. Bataviaasch Genootschap. Deel xlviii., 6, deel xlix., 1, 2.
• 2169 Bijdragen—Koninklijk Institunt, &c. Van Nederlandsch-Inde. Deel lvii.
• 2170 Contributions to the Physical Anthropology of California. University of California. Vol. iv., No. 2.
• 2171 The Earliest Historical Relations between Mexico and Japan. Vol. iv., No. 1.
• 2172 The Phonology of the Hupa Language. Vol. v., No. 1.
• 2173 The Mandans—Peabody Museum of American Archæology, &c. Vol. iii., No. 4.
• 2174 Commentary on the Maya Manuscript, &c.—Peabody Museum of American Archæology, &c. Vol. iv., No. 2.
• 2175 Antiquities of the Jemez Plateau—Bureau, American Ethnology. Bulletin 32.
• 2176-7 Annual Reports—Smithsonian Institution, 1905, 1906.
• 2178 Journal—American Oriental Society. Vol. xxvii, No. 2.
• 2179 Sprichwortliche Redensarten des Samoaner. From Dr. Schultz.
• 2180 Die Wichtigsten Grundsaetze des Samoanischen, &c. From Dr. Schultz.
• 2181 Proceedings—Royal Society, Edinburgh. Vol. xxvi., part 5.
• 2182 Bulletin—Société Neuchateloise de Géographic. Vol. xvii.
• 2183-4 Proceedings—Cambridge Philosophical Society. Vol. xiii., 6; xiv., 1
• 2185 Hinemoa. From Rev. H. J. Fletcher.