Contents. ix 



PAGES 



542 



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 543 

 Harding: 



.. 544-545 



Exhibit of Strclitzia in flower 

 Abstract of Annual Report 

 Election of Officers for 1893 



On a Curious Property of Odd Numbers. By T. B 

 communicated by R. C. Harding 



AUCKLAND INSTITUTE. 



Anniversary Address by the President, Professor F. D. Brown . . 546 



Evolutionary Ethics. By the Rev. J. Bates . . . . . . 546, 548 



The Aryans in their Primitive Home. By Professor C. A. Pond 547 



Exhibition of a New Wave-machine. By Professor Brown . . 548 



On some Peculiarities of the Maori Language. By F. D. Fenton 548 



Exhibition of a Model Geyser, designed by Mr. C. Malfroy . . 549 



An Army of Defenders : An Account of Metchnikoff 's Discoveries 

 concerning the Power of Resistance against Disease. By 

 Professor A. P. Thomas . . . . . . . . 549 



New Species of Uoleoptera. By Captain T. Broun . . . . 549 



Abstract of Annual Report . . - . . . . . . • 550-551 



Election of Officers for 1893 . . . . . . . . 551 



PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTE OF CANTERBURY. 



On Hail. By Professor A. W. Bickerton, F.C.S. .. .. 553 



On the Equilibrium of Gaseous Cosmic Spheres. By Professor 



A. W. Bickerton . . . . . . . . • • 553 



On some Causes for the Low Temperature of Dissociation. By 



Professor Bickerton . . . . . . . . . . 553 



On Methods of determining the Rate of Increase of the Attrac- 

 tion of Molecules in Terms of their Diameter. By Professor 

 Bickerton . . . . . . . . • • • • 553 



On the Specific Heat of Solutions at Constant Volume. By Pro- 

 fessor Bickerton . . . . . . . . • • 553 



Notes on the Earthquakes of 1891-92. By G. Hogben, M.A. . . 554 



Abstract of Annual Report . . . . . . . . . . 554 



Election of Officers for 1893 . . . . . . . . . . 554 



OTAGO INSTITUTE. 



A Page of Latter-day Literature. By Dr. Belcher . . . . 558 

 Additional Note on the Presence of a Crest of Feathers in some 



Kinds of Moa . . . . . . . . . . • • 559 



On a Genus of Boraginece new to New Zealand. By D. Pelin, 



M.A., F.L.S. .. .. .. .. .. .. 559 



On the Volatilisation of Silver. By D. Wilkinson . . . . 559 



On Recent Researches in Easter Island. By A. Hamilton . . 559-560 



Further Notes on Greenstone. By F. Chapman . . . . 560 



On the Early History of New Zealand. By Dr. T. M. Hocken . . 560 



On Aluminium and its Uses. By D. Wilkinson . . . . 560 



Abstract of Annual Report . . . . . . . . . . 560-561 



Election of Officers for 1893. . .. .. .. .. 561 



Address on Politics. By the President, C. W. Adams . . . . 561 



WESTLAND INSTITUTE. 



Abstract of Annual Report . . . . . . . . . . 562 



Election of Officers for 1893 . . . . . . . . 562 



