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Fifth Meeting : 25th September, 1916. 



Professor H. W. Segar, Vice-President, in the chair. 

 Lecture.- " Light and the Plant," by Professor J. C. Johnson. 



Sixth Meeting : 2nd October, 1916. 



Professor H. W. Segar, Vice-President, in the chair. 

 Papers. — 1. " The European Sugar Bounties," by E. V. Miller. 

 2. " Price Movements in New Zealand, their industrial and Social 

 Effects,'" by Dr. Mcllraith. 



Seventh Meeting : 16th October, 1916. 

 Professor H. W. Segar, Vice-President, in the chair. 

 Led tin. ' The Water-supply of Cities," by W. E. Bush, City Engineer. 



Eighth Meeting : 6th November, 1916. 



Hon. E. Mitchelson, President, in the chair. 

 Lecture. ' Victory, and After," by Archdeacon G. McMurray. 



Ninth Meeting : 13th December, 1916. 



Hon. E. Mitchelson, President, in the chair. 

 Papers. — 1. " The Vegetation of Lord Howe Island," by W. E. B. Oliver. 



2. " On a New South Polynesian Palm, with Notes on the Genus Rhopalo- 

 stylis,'' by Dr. Odoardo Beccari (communicated by T. F. Cheeseman). 



3. " ; Descriptions of New Genera and Species af Coleoptera," by Major 

 T. Broun, F.E.S. 



i. " Descriptions of New Native Flowering-plants," by D. Petrie. 



5. " Additional Facts concerning the Distribution of Igneous Rocks in 

 New Zealand," by J. A. Bartrum, M.Sc. 



6. " Concretions in the Recent Sediments of Auckland Harbour," by 

 J. A. Bartrum, M.Sc. 



Annual Meeting : 26th February, 1917. 



Hon. E. Mitchelson, President, in the chair. 



Annual Report. — The annual report and audited financial statement 



was read to the meeting, and ordered to be printed and distributed to the 



members. 



Abstract. 



Members. — The number of new members elected has been unusually large, amount- 

 ing to no less than eighty-four. Against this, twenty-nine names have been withdrawn 

 — nine by death, thirteen by resignation or removal from the district, and seven owing 

 to non-payment of subscription for more than two consecutive years. The net gain 



