734 Proceedings . 



Eighth Meeting: 22nd February, 1899. 



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



The following resolution was passed : " The Philosophical 

 Institute of Canterbury wishes to place on record its sense of 

 the great loss science in New Zealand has sustained by the 

 death of the Eev W. Colenso, who for so many years has done 

 good work in philology, botany, and zoology." 



^<i(?ress.— Professor Dendy delivered an address on " The 

 Life-history of the Tuatara," illustrated by diagrams and 

 specimens. {Transactions, p. 249.) 



Papers. — 1. "On the Neuroptera of New Zealand," by 

 Captain Hutton. {Transactions, p. 208.) 



2. " On the Seedling Forms of New Zealand Phanerogams : 

 Part II.," by Mr. L. Cockayne. {Transactions, p. 361.) 



3. " On Ligusticum trifoliatiim," by Mr. L. Cockayne. 

 {Transactions, p. 424.) 



4. " Descriptions of New Species of Astelia, Veronica, and 

 Celmisia," by Mr. L. Cockayne. {Transactions, p. 419.) 



5. "List of New Zealand Mollusca described in Foreign 

 Publications since 1890," by Mr. H. Suter. {Transactions, 

 p. 255.) 



Annual Meeting : StJi Apiril, 1899. 

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



New Members. — Mr. J. S. S. Cooper and Professor Arnold 

 Wall, M.A. 



Abstract op Annual Report for 1898. 



Since the last annual meeting eight ordinary meetings have been 

 held, and an extra meeting. At these meetings twenty-five papers have 

 been read, as follows : Botany, 8 ; zoology, 7 ; geology, 5 ; chemistry, 3 ; 

 physics, 2. 



At six of these ordinary meetings special addresses of a more or less 

 popular character have been delivered — viz. : " On some Recent Ad- 

 vances in Experimental Science," by Professor Bickerton ; " On Hyp- 

 notism : Its Fallacies and Facts," by Mr. R. M. Laing; •' On the Cultiva- 

 tion ot New Zealand Alpine Plants," bv Mr. L. Cockayne; "On the 

 Cell," by Mr. J. B. Mayne ; "On the Microscope in Geology," by Mr. 

 R. Speight ; " On the Life-history of th-3 Tuatara," by Professor 

 Dendv. 



The attendance at the ordinary meetings has averaged 321, so that 

 it will be .seen tliat botli in the number of paper-* read and in the average 

 attendance there has again been an increase on the pieceding vear. 



In addition to the ordinary meetings, a special meeting was held on 

 the 21st September, in the Chemistry Lecture Theatre, whm Captain 



