OTAGO INSTITUTE. 



First Meeting : 12th Maij, 1899. 



The session was opened with a conversazione, held at the 

 University Museum. 



The President, Mr. F. E. Chapman, exhibited typical 

 specimens from his collection of stone implements from New- 

 Zealand and other countries, as well as a series of old and 

 rare books. 



Dr. Hocken lent a number of his steel-plate engravings 

 representing various celebrities connected with the history of 

 New Zealand. 



Mr. Hamilton exhibited a series of fine Maori mats, belts, 

 gind other articles made of flax and feathers. 



Professor Benham exhibited the specimen of Notornis* 

 recently acquired by the Government, and deposited in the 

 Museum ; a complete moa's egg, recently obtained from the 

 Moiyneux ; and a number of new and rare zoological speci- 

 mens obtained during a recent trawling expedition off the 

 coast. 



Dr. De Lautour exhibited apparatus illustrating the appli- 

 cation of Eontgen rays. 



Second Meeting : 6th June, 1899. 



Dr. T. M. Hocken, Vice-president, in the chair. 



Neiv Members. — Dr. De Lautour, Mr. "Walter Carew, Mr. 

 C. W. Chamberlain. 



Professor Benham gave an address on "The Ultimate Vital 

 Unit," illustrated by a number of diagrams of the minute 

 structure of the animal and vegetable cell and nucleus. 



* See Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. xxxi., p. 743. 



