706 Proceedings. 



Sixth Meeting: 14th September, 1891. 



Professor F. D. Brown, President, in the chair. 



Mr. James Stewart, C.E., gave a popular lecture on " The 

 Eotorua Eailway and District." (Transactions, p. 591.) 

 The lecture was illustrated with numerous lantern views. 



Seventh Meeting: 19th October, 1S91. 



Professor F. D. Brown, President, in the chair. 



Professor A. P. Thomas, F.L.S., delivered a popular lec- 

 ture on " Pasteur, Koch, and their Work." 



The lecturer gave a brief sketch of the career of Pasteur, especially 

 alluding to his researches into the nature of tartaric acid, into fermenta- 

 tion, and to his discovery of a remedy for tlie silkworm-disease pebrine ; 

 also to his more recent investigations into the nature of hydrophobia. A 

 similarly interesting account was given of the scientific work of Koch, 

 and the lecture closed with an account of the methods in use at the 

 present time in studying the life-history of micro-organisms, and the 

 probable direction which future research would take. The lecture was 

 illustrated with the lantern. 



Eighth Meeting: 2ncl November, 1891. 



Professor F. D. Brown, President, in the chair. 



Neiu Member. — J. Kirker. 



Pajjers. — 1. "Descriptions of New Species of Coleoptera, 

 Part III.," by Captain T. Broun, F.E.S. 



2. " Catalogue of the Described Species of New Zealand 

 Araneidge," by A. T. Urquhart. {Transactions, p. 220.) 



3. " Descriptions of New Species of AraneaB," by A. T. 

 Urquhart. {Transactions, p. 230.) 



4. " On some Eecent Additions to the New Zealand 

 Flora," by T. F. Cheeseman, F.L.S. {Transactions, p. 409.) 



5. " Additional Notes on the Genus Carex," by T. F. 

 Cheeseman, F.L.S. {Transactions, p. 413.) 



6. " On the Occurrence of Native Silver at the Thames 

 Goldfield," by James Park, F.G.S. (Transactions, p. 380.) 



7. " Note to accompany a Specimen of Kauri Timber taken 

 from a Cottage erected more than Fifty Years ago," by Dr. 

 J. L. Campbell. 



" The accompanying piece of kauri timber was this day — 

 the 24th October, 1891 — in my presence and in the presence 

 of the Curator of the Auckland Museum, taken from the front 

 wall of a cottage standing on the business premises of Brown, 



