Contents. 



w. 



On Lord Shaftesbury's " Inquiry into Virtue " and the Utilitarian 



Theory of Morals. By W. Dinwiddie 

 On a Theory of Bird-Might. By J. Warburton ; communicated by 



Professor Hutton 

 Abstract of Annual Report 

 Election of Officers for 1888 

 Address In Memoriam Sir Julius von Haast. By the President . . 



OTAGO INSTITUTE. 



By Max Muret 



By the Rev. H. Belcher, 



Description of a new Bowing Apparatus. 

 On the Middle Voice in the Latin Verb. 



LL.D. 

 Notes of an Expedition to the Big Bay District. By B. Paulin 

 On Haworth's Patent Safety Cage. By G. J. Binns, F.G.S. 

 An Account of Recent Researches on the Pineal Gland and the 



Median Eye of Vertebrates. By T. Jeffery Parker . . 

 The History of the Otago Settlement. By Dr. Hocken . . 

 The Theatre of the Greeks. By the Rev. Dr. Belcher . . 

 Notes on New Zealand Crustacea. By G. M. Thomson, F.L.S 

 Notes on Additions to the Museum. By Professor T. Jeffery 



Parker 

 Abstract of Annual Report . . 

 Election of Officers for 1888 

 Address by the President 



WESTLAND INSTITUTE. 



Abstract of Annual Report 

 Election of Officers for 1887-88 



r-AGES. 



463 



464 

 464 

 464 

 464 



465 



465 

 465 

 465 



466 

 466 

 466 

 467 



467 

 468 

 468 

 468 



469 

 469 



HAWKE'S BAY PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTE. 



Notes on a Collection of Mineral Ores. By A. Hamilton . . 470 



Notes on Exhibits. By W. Colenso, F.R.S. . . . . . . 471 



On Olfactory Physics. By W. I. Spencer . . . . . . 471 



A Jubilee Paper; or, Fifty Years in New Zealand. By W. 



Colenso, F.R.S. .. .. .. .. .. 471 



On some Marine Invertebrates of Hawke's Bay. By A. Hamilton 471 



Notes on Additions to the Museum. By A. Hamilton . . . . 472 



Election of Officers for 1888.. .. .. .. .. 472 



SOUTHLAND INSTITUTE. 



On the Structure of Matter. 

 On the Tarawera Eruption. 



By A. Highton, B.A. 

 By W. S. Hamilton 



NELSON PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



Notes on Exhibits. By A. S. Atkinson 



On a new Species of Dodder. By J. Meeson, B.A. 



A few Suggestions on Matter and Energy. By W. Wells 



Resolution to form a School of Mines 



Notes on Natural History. By J. Martin, jun. 



On a recent Ascent of Mount Arthur and Mount Peel. By Dr. 

 Hudson 



Measurable Vibrations in Fluids, as suggestive of those only con- 

 ceivable in Ether. By G. Ashcroft 



On Yeast, By Dr. Key worth 



Presentation to Museum 



473 



473 



474 

 474 

 474 

 474 

 474 



474 



475 

 475 

 475 



