750 Proceedings. 



Eighth Meeting ; 16th September, 1895. 



Professor A. P. Thomas, President, in the chair. 



Mr. E. W. Payton gave a popular lecture on "Art and 

 Photography." 



Abstkact. 

 The lecturer discussed the claims of photography to a place among 

 the fine arts, treating the question from the point of view of both artist 

 and photographer. He described the cliief points of difference between 

 the works of the artist and the photographer, particularising the excel- 

 lencies and defects of both. The value of a knowledge of photography to 

 an artist, and its dangers, and the value of an artistic training to a pho- 

 tographer, were both fully treated of. The lecture was illustrated with a 

 large number of lantern-slides prepared from the best works of the most 

 celebrated artists of Europe, and from photographs of high merit. 



Ninth Meeting: 7th October, 1896. 



Professor A. P. Thomas, President, in the chair. 



Papers. — 1. " Description of Three New Species of Native 

 Plants," by D. Petrie, F.L.S. (Transactions, p. 538.) 



2. "On Some Additions to the New Zealand Flora," by 

 T. F. Cheeseman, F.L.S. (Transactions, p. 534.) 



3. " The x\ncient Tribe Te Panenehu," by Captain Gilbert 

 Mair. (Transactions, p. 36.) 



4. " The Railway and its Place in Social Economy," by 

 Dr. A. G. Purchas. (Transactions, p. 69.) 



Tenth Meeting: 21st October, 1895. 



Professor A. P. Thomas, F.L.S., President, in the chair. 



The Rev. Canon Bates gave a popular lecture on " Demo- 

 cracy." (Transactions, p. 97.) 



Annual Meeting : 24th February, 1896. 



Mr. J. H. Upton, President, in the chair. 



Paj?er.— "The Action of Potassium Cyanide upon Gold," 

 by J. S. Maclaurin. (Transactions, p. 695.) 



Abstract of Annual Bepoet. 

 The number of members is 172, being an increase of one on former 

 year. Those removed by death are Mr. D. B. Cruickshank, whose associa- 

 tion with the Institute dated almost from its foundation ; and I\Ir. W. P. 

 Moat, well-known in Auckland from his lengthened services on the Board 

 of Education. 



