%'iii Contents. 



NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE. 



PAGES 



Thirty-fourth Annual Report .. .. .. .. 549-551 



Accounts for 1901-2 . . . . . . . . . . 551 



PROCEEDINGS. 



WELLINGTON PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



Note on Somateria mollissima. By Sir W. Buller, K.C.M.G., 



F.R.S. .. .. '.. .. .. .. 555 



Remarks on Opossums. By Sir J. Hector . . . . . . 555-556 



Note on the Carunculated Shag . . . . . . . . 556 



Remarks on Wairaki Clay. By W. T. L. Travers, P.L.S. . . 556 



Remarks on Infusorial Earth. By T. Hustwick . . . . 557 



Abstract of Annual Report .. .. .. .. .. 557 



Election of Officers for 1903.. .. .. .. .. 557 



Address by the President (W. T. L. Travers, P.L.S.) . . 558 



AUCKLAND INSTITUTE. 



A Visit to Tahiti and tbe Society Islands. Bv Josiah Martin . . 559 



Japanese Medisevalism. By the Rev. W. G. Dixon . . . . 560 



Tennyson. By Professor Egerton .. .. .. .. 560 



Universal Equal Suffrage. By E. E. Vaile .. .. .. 560 



Abstract of Annual Report . . . . . . . . . . 560-561 



Eleotion of Officers for 1903.. .. .. .. .. 561 



PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTE OF CANTERBURY. 



Penguins and Petrels. By Captain P. W. Hutton, F.R.S. . . 56-2 



The Production of Colour by Absorption. By Dr. W. P. Evans 562 

 The Present State of our Knowledge of the Electrical Conditions 



of the Atmosphere. By C. Coleridge Farr, D.Sc. .. .. 563 



The Provencal Troubadours. By Professor T. G. R. Blunt . . 564 

 The Strength and Elasticity of some Australian and New Zea- 

 land Timbers. By Professor R. J. Scott . . . . . . 564 



Note on a Fresh-water Isopod (Phreatoicus). By H. B. Kirk . . 564 



Abstract of Annual Report . . . . . . . . . . 565 



Election of Officers for 1903.. .. .. .. .. 565 



OTAGO INSTITUTE. 



Resolution regarding the Mount Cook Reserve . . . . 566 



Impressions of Florence. By Miss M. E. Marchant .. .. 566 



Report on the Marine Fish-hatchery at Portobello . . . . 567 



Remarks on Fossil Cetacean Teeth. By A. Hamilton. . . . 567 



Protection and Reclamation of Sea-coasts by planting. By 



Dr. Trubv King .. .. .. .. . . 567 



On Tcznia echinococcus and Hydatid Disease. By Dr. Barnett 568 



On the Wanganui Gravels. By Dr. P. Marshall . . . . 568 



Exhibits by Professor Benham . . . . . . . . 569 



Abstract of Annual Report .. .. .. .. .. 569-571 



Eleotion of Officers for 1903.. .. .. .. .. 571 



WESTLAND INSTITUTE. 



Abstract of Annual Report . . . . . . . . . . 572 



Election of Officers for 1903.. .. .. .. .. 572 



