WELLINGTON PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



First Meeting : 1st May, 1907. 

 Professor H. B. Kirk, President, in the chair. 

 New Member. — Mr. Esmond Atkinson. 



Sir Walter Butter, K.C.M.G. — The President announced that 

 a letter had been received from Mr. A. P. Buller, expressing 

 thanks, on behalf of himself and relatives, for the resolution 

 of sympathy passed at the meeting of the Society on the 1st 

 August, 1906, in regard to the death of the late Sir Walter 

 Buller. 



Papers. — 1. " Seiches on Lakes," by Martin Chapman 



2. " A Surveying-camera," by C. E. Adams, B.Sc. 



Mr. Adams exhibited a specimen camera of the sort described, and 

 explained the mode in which the apparatus was used by the land-surveyor 

 and the map-maker. 



3. " Recent Observations on New Zealand Macro - lepi- 

 doptera, including Descriptions of New Species," by G. V. 

 Hudson, F.E.S. (p. 104). 



4. " Additional List of Mottusca : Minute Species found in 

 Sand from Titahi Bay, New Zealand," by T. Iredale, Christ- 

 church ; communicated by R. L. Mestayer, for Miss Mes- 

 tayer. 



The accompanying list contains a number of minute species of Mol- 

 lusca which were found by T. Iredale in some Titahi Bay sand which I sent 

 him. These were not included in the list published in the Transactions last 

 year : Purpura scobina, var. albomarginata, Desh. ; Trophou plebeius, 

 Hutt. (?), Jg. ; Lutonna mauritiana, Lam. ; Cominella lucida, Phil. (?), Jg. 

 Risellopsis varia, Hutt. ; Trochus traratus, Q. and G., Jg. ; Mytilus canali 

 cuius. Martyn ; Modiolaria barbata, Reeve ; Leiostraca murdochi, Hedley 

 Caecum, digitulum, Hedley: Rissoa incidata, Trauerfeld; Rissoa foueauxiana 

 Suter ; Rissoa microstriata, Murdoch ; Rissoina agrestis, Webster ; In 

 visum lyttdtonensis, E. A. Smith ; Scissunlla rosea, Hedley ; Liotia poly- 

 pleura, Hedley ; Schismope brevis, Hedley ; some minute bivalves not yet 

 satisfactorily placed, perhaps Cura delta, Tate and May, and Thilobrya 

 costata. Bernard. 



