NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE 



1911. 



PART II. 



PROCEEDINGS. 



WELLINGTON PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



Fourth Meeting : 9th August, 1911. 



Mr. G. V. Hudson, President, in the chair, and about sixty members 

 and friends present. 



New Members. — Captain G. S. Hooper and Mr. J. G. Wilson. 



Papers. — 1. " The National Home Reading Union." By Thus. 

 King, F.R.A.S. 



2. ' Immunity; or, How the Body defends itself against its Microbic 

 Foes. - ' By J. M. Mason, M.D., F.C.S., D.P.H. Camb. 



'■). "Notes on Salicornia australis." By Miss Cooke, M.A.; com- 

 municated by Professor Kirk. 



4. " Hoisting the Flag at Akaroa : an Incident of 1840." By Miss 

 E. M. Jacobson, M.A. ; communicated by C. E. Adams. 



'). 'Notes on Dragon-flies from the Kermadec Islands." By R. J. 

 Tillyard, M.A., F.E.S. ; communicated by A. Hamilton. 



6. " Longitude of the Hector Astronomical Observatory, Wellington." 

 Bv C. E. Adams, M.Sc, F.R.A.S. 



7. " Wellington Tidal Records." By C. E. Adams, M.Sc, F.R.A.S. 



Fifth Meeting : 6th September, 1911. 



Mr. G. V. Hudson, President, in the chair, and about fifty members 

 and friends present. 



New Member.— Mr. W. F. Howlett, B.A., Oxon. 



Papers. — 1. ' Notes on New Zealand Acarina." By J. B. Gatenby. 



This paper comprises descriptions of about fifty New Zealand Acarina, which 

 belong to Trombidium, Notophallus, Linopodes, Eryihraeus, Bdellus, Anyxtes>, Cytn, 

 Tyroglyphus, Ixodes, Gamasus, Uropoda, and several other more or less doubtful 



