758 Proceedings. 



Sixth Meeting : 8tJi October, 1895. 



Mr. A. Hamilton, President, in the chair. 



The Secretary gave an account of the steps which had 

 been taken to estabhsh a national memorial to the late Eight 

 Hon. T. H. Huxley, and stated that a local committee had 

 been formed to promote the objects of the undertaking. 



Papers. — 1. The Secretary read extracts from a letter 

 addressed to him by Dr. R. W. Shufeldt, of the Smithsonian 

 Institution, Washington, " On the Aflinities of Harpagornis." 

 {Transactions, p. 665.) 



2. The Secretary read a paper by M)-. O. Petiie entitled 

 " List of the Flowering-plants indigenous to Otago/' {Trans- 

 actions, p. 540.) 



3. The Secretary exhibited and made remarks upon an 

 arrow-worm [SpadcUa), from New Zealand waters. The pela- 

 gic group of worms, Cha'tognafha, comprising the two genera 

 Sagitta and Spadella, is widely distributed, but hitherto does 

 not seem to have been recorded in the Transactions as from 

 the seas about New Zealand. The specimens referred to were 

 taken in the tow -net off Antipodes Island, and in the plankton- 

 net in Paterson's Inlet, Stewart Island, and in Norman's 

 Inlet, Auckland Islands. They are closely allied to if not 

 identical with Spadella liamata, Mobius. 



4. Mr. G. M. Thomson read a paper on " New Zealand 

 Fisheries, and the Desirabilitv of introducing New Species of 

 Fish." 



5. The President read a paper on " Notes on a Branching 

 Tree-fern." (Transactions, p. 622.) 



Annual Meeting : 12tU November, 1895. 

 Mr. A. Hamilton, President, in the chair. 



Abstract of Ankual Report. 



During the session six general meetings and seven meetings of 

 Council have been held. 



Eleven papers have been read, besides one lecUue, and several ex- 

 hibits and demonstrations. 



Seven new members have joined the Institute. Iiringing the total 

 membership to 107. 



Earl}' in the year Dr. Chilton, elected President at the last annual 

 meeting, left the colony for England, and the Council was reluctantly 

 obliged to accept his lesignation, as also that of the Rev. Dr. Belcher, 

 one of the members of Council. In accordance with the regulations the 

 Council proQecded to fill the vacancies thus caused, and elected Mr. A. 

 Hamilton as President, Professor Scott as one of the Vice-Presidents, 

 and Messrs. A. Wilson and J. R. Don as ordinarv members of Council. 



