HAWKE'S BAY PHILOSOPHICAL INSTL 



TUTE. 



First Meeting : 18th May, 1895. 



The President, J. W. Carlile, M.A., in the chair. 



12 The President read an address " On several Matters of 

 Interest arising out of the Progress of Science during the Past 

 Year, with Notices of tlie Chief Men of Science deceased 

 during that Peiiod." 



Second Meeting : lOtk Jane, 1895. 

 The President in the chair. 

 Papers. — 1. " The Zoda or Thodawar Trihe of Madras, and 

 their Funeral Customs," hy A. E. \V. Lascelles. 



2.' " Bimetalhsm," by W. F. Howlett. 



3. " A Census of tlie Slips which occurred in this Dis- 

 trict during the Eainy Season of 1894," by H. Hill, B.A., 

 F.G.S. [Transaction.'^, p. 666.) 



Thikd Meeting : 15th July, 1895. 



The Vice-president, H. H. Pinckney, B.A., in the chair. 



Papers. — 1. " Eeminiscences of the Tin-mines of Cornwall 

 Seventy Years ago," by Eev. W. Colenso, F.E.S., F.L.S. 



2. " The Coinage of England under Charles I.," by H. M. 

 Lund. 



o. " Euapehu," by H. Hill, B.A., F.G.S. {Transactions, 

 p. 681.) 



Fourth Meeting : 12t1i August, 1895. 



The Vice-president in the chair. 



Papers. — 1. "Bird-life on a Eun," by H. Guthrie- Smith. 

 {Transactions, p. 367.) 



2. " Native Names of Places," by Taylor White. 



3. " The Ceremony of Eahui," by Taylor White. [Trans- 

 actions, p. 54.) 



