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Fourth Meeting : 28fli Jul//, 1915. 



Mr. T. King, F.R.A.S., President, in the chair, and about a hundred 



members and friends present. 



Address. — " A Few Minutes with Microbes," bv Dr. J. M. Mason. 

 F.C.S., D.P.H. 



Kinemaio(/raph Exhibition. — Mr. J. McDonald e.vhibited a number 

 of films of scientific interest. 



Fifth Meeting : -^dth August, 1915. 



Mr. T. King. F.R.A.S.. President, in the chair, and about twenty-five 



members and friends present. 



New Member. — Mr. J. W. Burbidge, M.Sc. 



Lecture. — " Indonesia to Hawaiki and the Land of Hiwa," by 

 Mr. F. W. Christian, corresponding member of the Polynesian Society 

 of New Zealand. 



Sixth Meeting : 22nd September, 1915. 



Mr. T. King, F.R.A.S., President, in the chair, and about twenty-five 



members and friends present. 



Addresses. — " The Manufacture of Searchlight Carbons," and " The 

 Preparation of Morphia from Confiscated Opium," by Professor T. H. 

 Easterfield, M.A., Ph.D. 



Papers. — 1. "East Coast Earthquakes, September to November, 

 1914," by Mr. G. Hogben, C.M.G., F.G.S. 



2. " Catalogue of Changes proposed in the New Zealand Flora 

 (Vascular Plants only) since the Appearance of Cheeseman's Manual in 

 1906," by Dr. L. Cockayne, F.R.S. 



3. " Notes on the Plant Ecology of the Awatere River Basin, together 

 with a List of the Vascular Plants," by Dr. L. Cockayne, F.R.S. 



4. " Notes on the Occurrence of the Genus Trachipterus in New 

 Zealand," by Mr. H. Hamilton. 



5. " Records of Unconformities from Late Cretaceous to Early 

 Miocene in New Zealand," by Mr. P. G. Morgan, M.A. 



6. " The Continental Shelf," by Dr. C. A. Cotton, F.G.S. 



7. " Notes on some of the Coast Features of New Zealand," by Dr. 

 C. A. Cotton, F.G.S. 



8. " Notes on Puccinea otagoensis found on Clematis," by Miss H. 

 Jenkins, M.A. 



9. " Earlv Stages in the Development of Dolichoglossus otagoensis," 

 by Professor H. B. Kirk, M.A. 



10. "On the Gonoducts of the Porcupine-fish [Dicotylichthys jacu- 

 liferu^ Cuvier)," by Professor H. B. Kirk, M.A. 



11. On Stage Names applicable to the Divisions of the Tertiarv in 

 New Zealand," bv Dr. J. Allan Thomson, F.G.S. 



