PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTE OF 

 CANTEEBUEY. 



FiBST Meeting : 2nd May, 1888. 



Professor F. W. Haslara, President, in the chair. 



Mr. E. M. Laing was elected Secretary, vice Mr. W. 

 Dinwiddie, resigned. 



Second Meeting : 7th June, 1888. 

 Mr. S. Hurst-Seager, Vice-president, in the chair. 

 Neio Member. — J. T. Meeson, B.A. 



Third Meeting: Gtli Julij, 1888. 

 Mr. G. Hogben, M.A., Vice-president, in the chair. 



Neio Member. — Gilbert King. 



Fourth Meeting : .2nd August, 1888. 



Professor F. W. Haslani, President, in the chair. 



Ne20 Members. — W. H. Graham and Thomas Danks. 



Paper. — " On the Metallm-gy of the Economic Minerals, 

 Modes of determining them, and Methods of testing for 

 them," by Mr. J. B. Stansell. 



The following resolution was passed : — 



The members of the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury desire to 

 record the deep sense of the loss they have sustained in the removal by 

 death of the late Thomas Henry Potts, who was one of the earliest mem- 

 bers of the Institute, and contributed largely by his minute observation 

 of nature to the knowledge of the natural history of New Zealand ; and 

 they request the President to write a letter of sympathy and condolence 

 to Mrs. Potts and her family. 



Fifth Meeting : 6th September, 1888. 



Professor F. W. Haslam, President, in the chair. 



ra2)cr.~" On the Goldiields of New Zealand," by Pro- 

 fessor F. W. Hutton. 



