OTAGO INSTITUTE. 



First Meeting : 22nd May, 1894. 



Mr. Edward Melland, President, in the chair. 



New Members. — F. J. Bews, Henry Williams. 

 Professor F. B. de M. Gibbons read a paper on " The 

 Appreciation of Gold." 



Second Meeting: 19tli June, 1894. 

 Mr. Edward Melland, President, in the chair. 



Professor Parker gave an account of the characteristics 

 and the life-history of the principal parasitic worms infesting 

 man. 



Mr. G. M. Thomson gave an account of the structure and 

 systematic position of Anaspis, a newly-discovered annectant 

 form of Arthrostracous Crustacea. 



Mr. A. Hamilton read a paper on moa-feathers, sum- 

 marizing the present information on the subject, and giving 

 particulars of the finding of a large number of feathers of 

 Megalapteryx in a cave on the Old Man Eange, at the head of 

 the Waikaia Eiver. (Trans actions, p. 232.) 



Third Meeting: 17th July, 1891. 



Mr. Edward Melland, President, in the chair. 



The President read a paper "On the Financial Depression, 

 its Cause and Eeniedy." 



Fourth Meeting: 14th August, 1894. 

 Mr. Edward Melland, President, in the chair. 

 Neiu Member. — C. Howard Jackson. 



Professor Parker drew attention to a large and valuable 

 collection of ethnological specimens from New Guinea, re- 

 cently presented to the Museum by the Eev. James Chalmers. 



The Eev. Dr. Belcher read a paper " On some Female 

 Characters in the Plays of Sophocles." 



