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Election of Officeks for 1890. — President — S. Hurst- 

 Seager, A.E.I.B.A. ; Vice-i^'esidents—H. E. Webb, F.E.M.S., 

 J. T. Meeson, B.A. ; Treasurer- — J. T. Meeson, B.A.; Secre- 

 tary — E. M. Laing, M.A., B.Sc. ; 6'o«;tc//— Professor F. W. 

 Hiitton, Dr. Symes, T. W. Naylor Beckett, F.L.S., B. Bull. 

 E. W. Fereday, F.E.S. 



It was moved by Professor Hutton, and unanimously 

 resolved, " That the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury 

 forward an invitation to the Australasian Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, asking it to meet in Christchurch in 

 January, 1891." 



The retiring President then gave an address summing up 

 the work of the year. 



Special Meeting : 21st November, 1889. 

 S. Hurst-Seager, A.E.I.B.A., President, in the chair. 



Papers.— 1. " Some Simple Experiments to illustrate Force, 

 Energy, Momentum, &e.," by Professor F. W. Bickerton. 



2. "A Method of explaining the Phenoinena of Dissocia- 

 tion, and some of the Peculiarities of the Isothermals of Gases, 

 by means of Molecular Attraction," by Professor F. W. 

 Bickerton. 



3. " On some of the Eesults of the Impact of Spherical 

 Nebulge," by Professor F. W. Bickerton. 



