WELLINGTON PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



First Meeting : 11th May, 1904. 

 Professor Easterfield, President, in the chair. 



New Member. — Mr. A.. T. Clarke. 



The President announced that the Council was endeavour- 

 ing to arrange for the delivery of a series of popular lectures 

 under the auspices of the Society. He had pleasure in stating 

 that Mr. Augustus Hamilton had consented to give the first 

 lecture, the subject to be " Maori Art." 



Professor Easterfield then delivered his presidential address 

 on " Kecent Advances in Technical Chemistry." 



At the c inclusion of the address a cordial vote of thanks was passed 

 to Professor Easterfield. 



Second Meeting : 1st June, 1904. 

 Professor Easterfield, President, in the chair. 



Neio Member. — Mrs. Kate Mason. 



The President announced that Mr. Thomas King had been 

 elected Secretary and Treasurer of the Society, vice Mr. A. H. 

 Gore, resigned ; also that Mr. Cuthbert Ereyberg had been 

 appointed Librarian. 



On the motion of the President, seconded by Professor 

 Kirk, it was resolved that in future the meetings of the Society 

 should be held at 8 p.m. instead of at 7.45 p.m. 



Papers. — The following papers were read : — 



1. " Notes on the Entomology of Mount Holdsworth, 

 Tararua Eange," by G. V. Hudson, F.E.S. (Transactions, 

 p. 334.) 



Professor Kirk spoke of the importance of the question raised by the 

 author as to the distribution of species in the North and South Islands of 

 the colony. He considered that on this expedition Mr. Hudson had done 

 valuable entomological work. 



Mr. G. E. Adams bore out what Mr. Hudson had said as to the 

 meteorological conditions prevailing on Mount Holdsworth and on the 

 neighbouring portions of the Tararua Range. Mr. Adams described the 

 experience of a surveyor who has been engaged on the summits of this 

 range in work which required a clear horizon in all directions. Under 

 favourable circumstances the surveyor's task would have been completed 

 in a few days, but he was so much hindered by clouds and haze that he 

 had to pass a whole month on the range, and to take his observations in 

 sections in such quarters as were from time to time free from obscurity. 



2. " Epalxiphora axenana, Meyr., a species of Lepidoptera 

 scarce in New Zealand" (illustrated), by Ambrose Quail, 

 F.E.S. (Transactions, p. 343.) 



