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Captain Hutton exhibited and made remarks upon a moa- 

 bone obtained from the silt at St. Martins, Port Hills, and 

 presented to the Museum by Mr. K. M. Laing. 



Second Meeting : 1st June, 1898. 

 Dr. W. P. Evans, President, in the chair. 



Address. — Professor Bickerton delivered an. address on 

 " Some Recen-t Advances in Experimental Science," illustrated 

 by numerous experiments. 



Captain Hutton exhibited some fragments of prehistoric 

 pottery from Japan, and a volcanic bomb supposed to have 

 been ejected from Mount Herbert. 



Professor Dendy exhibited the specimen of Naultinus grayi, 

 from the North Island; already shown at the last meeting, 

 together with two young of the same animal, born about the 

 27th May. The young were compared with those of Naultinus 

 elegans, from the South Island, and shown to be quite different, 

 being without the characteristic pattern of the latter,* and of 

 a bright yellowish-green tint (almost uniform) on the dorsal 

 surface, and very much paler beneath. 



Third Meeting : 6th July, 1898. 



Dr. W. P. Evans, President, in the chair. 



Address. — Mr. R. M. Laing delivered an address on "Hyp- 

 notism : Its Fallacies and Facts." 



Fourth Meeting : 3rd August, 1898. 



Dr. W. P. Evans, President, in the chair. 



Address. — Mr. L. Cockayne delivered an address on " The 

 Cultivation of New Zealand Alpine Plants," largely illustrated 

 by specimens and lantern slides. 



Papers. — 1. " On the Genus Weissia," by Mr. R. Brown. 

 {Transactions, p. 437.) 



2. " Corrections in the Names of some New Zealand 

 Rocks," by Captain Hutton. {Transactions, p. 483.) 



* The diamond pattern is already well developed in the newly born of 

 N. elegans. 



