OTAGO INSTITUTE. 



First Meeting: 13th May, 1902. 

 Professor Benham, President, in the chair. 



New Members. — Messrs. Alexander Michie, Percy E. Sar- 

 good, F. Z. Moore, Tompson Lamb, and Dr. Stevens. 



Paper. — " The Marine Mollusca of Totaranui Bay, Nel- 

 son," by Professor Park. (Transactions, p. 299.) 



Exhibits. — Mr. A. Hamilton showed a distorted stump of 

 an elder-tree that had grown up between the University wall 

 and the water-channel, and had burst up the latter. 



The President exhibited a supposed hybrid between the 

 common fowl and the weka, and showed that neither the 

 external features nor the skeleton presented any approxima- 

 tion to the weka, but were entirely and absolutely galline. 



Second Meeting : 10th June, 1902. 

 Professor Benham, President, in the chair. 

 Mr. A. Bathgate moved the following resolution : — 



That this Institute, having learned with regret that sheep are 

 allowed to run upon the reserve at Mount Cook, and that the interesting 

 native flora of that locality is consequently threatened with extinction, 

 strongly urge on the Government the necessity for the immediate adop- 

 tion of adequate measures to protect the reserve referred to from the 

 depredations of stock and from injury by fire, and that the Government 

 be asked to make and protect further reserves in that locality, including 

 the country between the Tasman and Hooker Glaciers; and that a copy of 

 this resolution be sent to the Hon. tbe Minister of Lands. 



Mr. P. R. Chapman seconded and strongly supported the resolution, 

 which was carried unanimously. 



Miss M. E. A. Marchant, M.A , delivered an interesting 

 address on " Impressions of Florence," formed during her 

 recent visit to Europe. 



After the address a fine series of lime-light views of the city and its 

 chief architectural and historical places of interest was thrown on the 

 screen. 



