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Longitude. 



13. That the Congress urge on the Government the importance of New- 

 Zealand acting jointly with the Australian observatories in the determination 

 of longitude by radio-telegraphic methods, during the month of May, 1919. 



Bench-marks. 



14. That the Congress urge on the Government the importance of 

 establishing permanent bench-marks and tide-gauges, and to connect the 

 bench-marks by lines of precise levelling. 



Preservation of Fauna. 



15. That the New Zealand Institute combine with acclimatization 

 societies in urging the Government to pass fresh legislation to preserve 

 the native fauna, and that the subject be introduced into the State schools. 



Standard Time. 



16. That the Government be asked to alter the standard time from 

 eleven and a half to twelve hours in advance of Greenwich time. 



The Philosophical Institute of Canterbury was asked to draw up a 

 record of the proceedings of the Congress. 



MEETINGS OF SECTIONS. 



SECTION 1.— BIOLOGY AND AGRICULTURE. 



Tuesday, 4th February, 1919. 



Members of this section met in the Biology lecture-room at noon. 

 Present : Hon. G. M. Thomson, Vice-President, in the chair, and several 

 members. Papers for the following day's session were arranged for. The 

 two excursions, one to Lincoln Agricultural College, for agriculturists chiefly, 

 and the other to Riccarton Bush, were decided upon for Tuesday afternoon. 



Wednesday, -Sth February, 1919, 10 a.m. 



Present : Hon. G. M. Thomson, Vice-President, in the chair, and over 

 thirty members. 



An excursion was arranged to the Dyer's Pass Ptest-house for the 

 afternoon. 



Papers. — " Yellow Flax Disease of Phormium tenax,'' by Dr. L. Cockayne 

 and Mr. A. H. Cockayne 



" Seed-testing," by Mr. E. B. Levy. 



" The Vegetation of Banks Peninsula, with a List of Species (Flowering- 

 plants and Ferns)," by Mr. R. M. Laing. (Printed in the Transactions, 

 pp. 355-408.) 



Thursday, 6th February, 1919, 10 a.m. 



Present : Hon. G. M. Thomson, Vice-President, in the chair, and a 

 number of members. 



Papers. — " Control of Animal-disease in New Zealand," by Dr. C. J. 

 Reakes. 



