OTAGO INSTITUTE 



First Meeting: 11/// May, 1907. 

 The President, Dr. R. Fulton, in the chair. 



New Members. — Professor Richard, Mrs. Stilling, Messrs. 

 W. J. Morrell, M.A., Harold Hamilton, Robert Lee. 



The President referred to the honour recently conferred on 

 Dr. Benham by his election as a Fellow of the Royal Society. 



Exhibit. — The Curator of the Museum exhibited a new 

 variety of the common gecko, Navltinus elegans, and its two 

 young ones born in captivity. 



The mother was bright-green, with a pair of sulphur-yellow lines 

 along its side ; the young ones entirely different, being dark grass-green, 

 with a series of white black-bordered spots in place of the yellow line. 



Address. — The President delivered his address, entitled " The 

 Disappearance of our Native Birds " (p. 485). 



Second Meeting : Wth June, 1907. 



The President, Dr. R. Fulton, in the chair. 



New Member. — Mr. James Jeffrey. 



Exhibits. — Dr. Benham exhibited and made some remarks 

 upon instances of variation in colour-marks present in two species 

 of Chiton — Onithochiton undulatvs and Ischnochiton longicymba. 



Paper. — " Some Littoral Hydrocorallin< s from New Zealand 

 Waters," by Dr. Benha m. 



The author exhibited specimens of Labiopora, Errina, Distichopora, 

 and Stylaster, some of which had been loaned by the Colonial .Museum 

 and by the Canterbury -Museum. 



Address. — Dr. Marshall gave an address on " The Volcano 



Ngauruhoe." 



The speaker briefly outlined by means of diagrams the various ohangeB 

 that had taken place in the volcano since Mr. Bidwcll's ascent, and also 

 gave sonic remarkably interesting experiences of his own in the crater of 

 the volcano. Ngauruhoe was more active now than it had been for fifteen 

 years, but was nothing like what it used to be. 



As an outcome of the presidential address the following reso- 

 lution was read by the Chairman : — 



That this Institute is of opinion that, in order to preserve our native 

 birds from extinction, the adoption of the following measures is urgently 



