Contents. ix 



Why not prepare Students for Teohnical Schools. By James pages 



Adams . . . . . . . . . . . . 566 



The Surface of a Liquid. By Professor F. D. Brown . . . . 566 



On a Hot Spring in the Rotomahana Rift. By J. A. Pond . . 566 



Abstraot of Annual Report . . . . . . . . . . 566-568 



Election of Officers for 1901 . . . . . . . . 568 



PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTE OF CANTERBURY. 



The Geological Structure of Lyttelton Harbour. By R. M. Laing 569 



Some Modern Applications of Electricity. By J. L. Scott . . 569 

 Exhibit of Instruments used in Investigations in Vegetable 



Physiology, by Professor Dendy . . . . . . . . 569 



List of Exhibits . . . . . . . . . . . . 570 



On Bacteria. By Professor Dendy . . . . . . . . 571 



Appreciation of the late Mr. H. R. Webb, F.R.M.S. . . . . 571 



On a Lygosoma from Pitt Island. By Professor Dendy . . 571 



Abstract of Annual Report . . . . . . . . . . 572 



Election of Officers for 1901 . . . . . . . . . . 572 



OTAGO INSTITUTE. 



Account of Recent Excavations at Olympia. By A. Wilson . . 573 



Account of Dr. Berggren's Researches in New Zealand. By Dr. 



Hocken . . . . . . . . . . . . 573 



Exhibits, by Professor Benham . . . . . . . . 573 



Remarks on some of the Lower Forms of Animal Life in New 



Zealand. By Profesf or Benham . . . . . . 573-574 



Account of Government Trawling Operations. By G. M. Thom- 

 son . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 574 



Remarks on Proposed Fish-hatchery. By G. M. Thomson .. 574 



Exhibit of Metacrias strategica, b3 r A. Hamilton .. .. 574 



Account of a New Track to the We6t Coast. By C. W. Cham- 

 berlain . . . . . . . . . . . . 575 



On a Young Whale caught near Otago Heads. By Professor 



Benham . . . . . . . . . . . . 575 



The Marine Annelids of the New Zealand Shores. By Profefs^r 



Benham . . . . . . . . . . . . 575 



The Knowledge of Animals in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth 



Centuries. By T. D. Pearce . . . . . . . . 575 



On a Large Spider-crab (Prionorhynchus edivardsii). By Pro- 

 fessor Benham . . . . . . . . . . 576 



On the Condition of Forestry in New Zealand. By H. T. 



Matthews . . . . . . . . . . . . 576 



On the Undue Weight attached to the Training of certain Intel- 

 lectual Faculties. By Dr. Truby King . . . . . . 57C 



List of Scientific Papers and Addresses by the late Sir Julius von 



Haast. By A. Hamilton . . . . . . . . 570 



Abstract of Annual Report . . . . . . . . . . 577 



Election of Officers for 1901 . . . . . . . . . . 577 



On Cremation. By E. Melland .. .. .. .. 577 



HAWKE'S BAY PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTE. 



The Science of the Nineteenth Century. By the President . . 578 

 Bacteria: Benevolent and Malevolent, with Special Reference to 



the Plague and to the Treatment of Sewage. By Dr. Leahy 578 



Mars and its Canals. By the Rev. W. G. Parsonson . . . . 578 



