520 Proceedings. 



WELLINGTON PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



Since the 30th September, 1919, eight meetings of the society have 

 been held, when papers were read as follow : — 



22nd October, 1919 (annual meeting) : Hon. G. M. Thomson, " Powdered 

 Coal." 



3rd December : Dr. R. J. Tillyard, " Neuropteroid Insects." 

 28th April, 1920 : Professor D. M. Y. Sommerville, " Map Projections." 

 26th May : Dr. T. A. Jaggar, " The Study of Volcanoes." 

 23rd June : H. Rands, " Research in a Chemical Munition Factory, 

 with Special Reference to the Ammonia-oxidation Process." 



28th July : T. E. Perks and W. Donovan, " Some Notes on the Corro- 

 sion of Muntz Metal " ; Dr. C. E. Adams, " New Zealand Observatories and 

 American Co-operation." 



28th August : J. H. Edmundson, " Liquid Air." 



22nd September : E. K. Lomas, " The Geographical Foundations of the 

 Peace Treaty Boundaries." 



In addition the following papers were taken as read : — 



22nd October, 1919 : Dr. L. Cockayne, " Notes on New Zealand Floristic 

 Botany, No. 4 " ; Miss M. K. Mestayer, "Notes on New Zealand Mollusca— 

 No. 1, Three New Species of Polyplacophora, and other New Species " ; 

 G. C. Burton and W. Donovan, " Distillation Experiments with Waikaia 

 Shale " ; E. Bond, " A Note on Candle-nuts from Rarotonga " ; W. Dono- 

 van, " A Note on Sting-ray-liver Oil " ; Dr. J. A. Thomson, " The 

 Notocene Geology of the Middle Waipara and Weka Pass District," 

 " The Cretaceous Brachiopods of New Zealand," " Some Fossil Species of 

 the Genus Neothyris (Brachipoda)." 



3rd December : G. V. Hudson, " Illustrated Life-histories of New Zea- 

 land Insects — No. 1, Gnophomyia rufa, Limnophila sinistra, Melanostoma 

 decessum." 



22nd .September, 1920 : E. Meyrick. " Notes and Descriptions of New 

 Zealand Lepidoptera." 



27th October, 1920 : Miss M. K. Mestayer, " Notes on New Zealand 

 Mollusca— No. 2, Callochiton empleurus (Hutton) " ; P. G. Morgan, " Notes 

 on the Geology of the Patea District " ; G. H. Cunningham, " New Zealand 

 Cordyceps" " The Rusts of New Zealand " ; D. Miller, " Material for a 

 Monograph on the Diptera Fauna of New Zealand— Part II, Syrphidae ; 

 Part III, Empididae " ; J. G. Myers, " Supplement to Cicadidae of New 

 Zealand," " Bionomic Notes on some New Zealand Spiders," : ' Life-history 

 of some New Zealand Insects," " Notes on the Hemiptera of the Kermadec 

 Islands." 



17th November, 1920 : W. R. B. Oliver, " Notes on Specimens of New 

 Zealand Ferns and Flowering- plants in London Herbaria," ' The Crab- 

 eating Seal in New Zealand." 



The average attendance at ordinary meetings has been thirty-eight. 



