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endowed with considerable means. We have become subject to public 

 criticism ; let us do all we can, then, to earn the approval of that public, 

 which, after all, is, in the long run, no bad judge of right and wrong. If we 

 stand still, if we hesitate to venture along the road which fortune has 

 opened out to us, we shall signally fail in our duty. If, when we are called 

 to account by public opinion, we have only to say, " Lo, I was afraid, and 

 went and hid thy talent in the earth ; lo, there thou hast that which is 

 thine," w« shall not improbably receive the answer, "Take, therefore, the 

 talent from him, and give it him which hath ten talents." 



Second Meeting: lith June, 1986. 



Professor F. D. Brown, President, in the chair. 



Dr. Posnett delivered a lecture on " Primitive Property." 



Third Meeting: 28«^ June, 1886. 

 Professor F. D. Brown, President, in the chair. 



New Members. — E. W. Burton, Rev. J. S. Hill, Dr. Lawry, 

 J. McLauren, Prof. H. M. Posnett, C. P. Winkelmann. 



Papers. — 1. Notes " On the Hot Springs in the Great Barrier 

 Island," by C. P. Winkelmann. {Transactions, p. 388.) 



2. " On Volcanic Dust," by Professor A. P. Thomas. 



FouETH Meeting: 12th July, 1886. 

 Dr. Purchas in the chair. 

 Paver. — " Observations on the recent Eruption of Mount 

 Tarawera," by S. Percy Smith, F.R.G.S., and J. A. Pond, Pro- 

 vincial Analyst. {Transactions, p. 342.) 



Fifth Meeting : 2m July, 1886. 

 Professor F. D. Brown, President, in the chair. 

 Neic Members. — A. Montgomery, Carl Secquer. 

 Papers.—!. " Thermal Activity in the Crater of Euapchu," 

 by L. Cussen. {Transactions, p. 374.) 



2. " The Tarawera Eruption, as observed at Gisborne," by 

 Archdeacon W. L. Williams. {Transactio7ts, p. 380.) 



3. "The Tarawera Eruption, as observed at Opotiki," by 

 E. P. Dumerque. {Trausactium, p. 382.) 



4. " Notes on the Eruption of Tarawera, as seen from Taheke, 

 Lake Rotoiti," by Major W. G. Mair. {Transactions, p. 372.) 



5. Professor Thomas gave a verbal account of his recent 

 journey to Rotomahana and Tarawera. 



