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Fifth Meeting : 1st August, 1894. 

 Mr. B. M. Laing in the chair. 



Palmers. — 1. "On llajaqucus cequinoctialis, from Anti- 

 poles Island," by Captain F. W. Hutton. (Transactions, 

 p. 177.) 



2. " Notes on New Zealand Land Planarians: Part I.," by 

 A. Dendy, D.Sc. [Transactions, p. 177.) 



Sixth Meeting : 5th September, 1894. 



Mr. J. Meeson in the chair. 



Papers. — 1. " On New Zealand Mosses," by T. W. 

 Naylor-Beckett, F.L.S. (Transactions, p. 403.) 



2. "On a New Zealand Land Neniertine," by A. Dendy, 

 D.Sc. (Transactions, p. 191.) 



3. "On a New Variety of Peripatus nova-zealandia, 

 Hutton," by A. Dendy, D.Sc. (Transactions, p. 190.) 



Seventh Meeting : 3rd October, 1894. 



Mr. E. M. Laing in the chair. 



Papers. — 1. "On the Axial Skeleton in the Dinornithidae," 

 by Captain F. W. Hutton. (Transactions, p. 157.) 



2. " On the Conditions of Equilibrium of Free Gaseous 

 Cosmical Bodies under Varying Conditions of Volume, Com- 

 position, Temperature, and Mass," by Professor Bickerton. 



3. " Curves of Gravitation," by Professor Bickerton. 



4. " The Immortality of the Cosmos; being an Attempt to 

 show that the Theory of Dissipation of Energy is limited to 

 Finite Portions of Space," by Professor Bickerton. (Trans- 

 actions, p. 538.) 



5. "On an Oversight in Croll's Mode of lengthening the 

 Age of the Sun's Heat," by Professor Bickerton. (Trans- 

 actions, p. 558.) 



6. " On Disposing Affinity and the Constitution of diffi- 

 cultly-decomposable Cyanides," by Professor Bickerton. 



Annual Meeting : 7th November, 1894. 



Mr. E. M. Laing in the chair. 



Papers. — 1. " Note on the Observation of Microseismic 

 Waves," byG. Hogben, M.A. 



