HAWKE'8 BAY PHILOSOPHICAL 

 INSTITUTE. 



First Meeting: 9th May, 1898. 



The President read the inaugural address, taking as his 

 subject " Tile State in Relation to Pubhc Health." 



Second Meeting : IStJi June, 1898. 



Mr. W. Dinwiddle delivered a popular lecture on " The 

 Comic in Art," illustrated by a number of lantern-slides. 



Thikd Meeting : lltli July, 1898. 



Paper. — " National Pensions — a Proposed Scheme," by 

 H. Hill. B.A., F.G.S. {Transactions, p. 683.) 



Foukth Meeting: 32nd August, 1898. 



Mr. Hill exhibited— (1) Toki ; (2) ancient stone sinker ; 

 (3) obsidian ; (4) several specimens Dactylanthus taylori. 



Fifth Meeting : 12t}i Septeviber, 1898. 



Paper. — "The Elvers of the Hawke's Bay Plains," by 

 F. A. Tregelles, C.E., illustrated by diagrams and lantern- 

 slides. 



Sixth Meeting : 21st September, 1898. 



Mr. T. Tanner delivered a popular lecture on " The Geo- 

 logical History of the World," illustrated by fifty lantern- 

 slides and several diagrams. 



Seventh Meeting: 17th October, 1898. 



Papers.— 1. " PhaBnogams : A Description of a few more 

 Newly Discovered Indigenous Plants ; being a Further Con- 

 tribution towards making known the Botany of New Zea- 



