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'feel it my duty to express my thanks for the kind manner in which you 

 have alwa\s sustained me in the work I have had to do. It has some- 

 times been hard and cross-grained, but I have always met with the 

 greatest kindness and appreciation of such merit as the work I have con- 

 tributed has possessed. I ask you, sir, to receive my thanks to the 

 Society. 



The President, Professor Easterfield, said: Ladies and Gentlemen, 

 Sir James Hector has just alluded to his long connection witli this 

 Society, and has referred to the fact that he is about to leave us. The 

 Society sincerely hopes that on many future occasions it may have the 

 privilege of liis presence and assistance. He is about to leave us on a trip 

 to Canada, but we look forward to only a temporary separation from our 

 old and trusted friend. I feel sure that we all look forward earnestly to 

 the time when we shall have him back among us, refreslied by rest and 

 change of scene, and with his health and old energy restored. The strain 

 upon him of the Institute and its duties has for some time past been too 

 severe. I am only expressing the feelings of all present when I say that 

 we are looking forward with pleasure to the time when we shall welcome 

 him among us once more. 



Third Meeting : 5th August, 1903. 

 The President, Professor Easterfield, in the chair, 



Mr. Martin Chapman proposed, and Mr. Hogben seconded, 

 That the President be instructed to expend the sum of ten 

 guineas in a suitable memento in appreciation of the services 

 of the late Secretary. — Carried. 



Papers. — 1. " On the Fallacies of the Metric System," 

 pt. i., by E. Coupland Harding. 



2. " On the Occurrence of certain Lepidoptera in South- 

 land," by A. Philpott ; commvinicated by G. V. Hudson, 

 F.E.S. 



Exhibits. — 1. Brown trout, weight 291b. (kindly lent by 

 -the Superintendent, Tourist Department). 



2. Esquimaux camelito or parkee (rain-coat). 



3. New Zealand weta (Deinacrida thoracica). 



Fourth Meeting : 2nd September, 1903. 



The President, Professor Easterfield, in the chair. 



Presentation. — In pursuance of a resolution passed at the 

 last meeting of the Society, the President presented to Mr. 

 E. B. Gore, the late Secretary of the Society, some handsome 

 pieces of plate, bearing an inscription indicating that they 

 are a memento of Mr. Gore's services to the Society from 

 1873 to 1903. In a letter of thanks Mr. Gore expressed his 

 appreciation of the gift and the good wishes for his restora- 

 tion to health, which, he regretted to say, was still very un- 

 satisfactory. 



