NELSON PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



First Meeting: d4h March, 1890. 



The Bishop of Nelson, President, in the chair. 



Exhibits. — The Curator exhibited specimens of larva of 

 Eristalis, beetle {Othophagus cjranulatus), and humble-bee 

 (Bombus terrestris) ; also twelve Poonah figures, and a number 

 of Indian curios, presented by Colonel Farrington ; sand-plover, 

 desert-chat, male and female wheatears, a little grebe, all from 

 Palestine ; an ibis, from New Guinea ; a PJiamphocehis jacopa 

 and a Dendrochclidon mysticalis, from Borneo, presented by 

 the President; a duck-billed platypus {Ornithorhynchus), from 

 Tasmania, presented by Mr. A. S. Atkinson ; fossils flom 

 Awatere, presented by the Curator. 



Papers. — 1. "On a Specimen of the Great Eibbon-fish {Be- 

 galecus argcnteus) taken in Nelson Harbour," by E. I. Kingsley. 

 {Transactions, vol. xxii., p. 333.) 



2. " Notes on Blights," by James Hudson, M.B. {Transac- 

 tions, p. 111.) 



The author exhibited two specimens of blight — Dactylophis calcco- 

 larice and Lecaniuvi hispidum. 



Second Meeting : 7th July, 1S90. 

 The Bishop of Nelson, President, in the chair. 



Exhibits. — Specimen of Burmese carving, presented by Mr. 

 Snodgrass ; eight volumes, some scientific instruments (prism, 

 air-pumps, &c.), and two frames of Egyptian photogi'aphs, 

 presented by the late Hon. Secretary, Dr. Coleman ; a cat- 

 fish, by Mr. McArtney ; specimen of John Dory {Zeus faber), 

 presented by the Curator. The Curator also exhibited a 

 Fijian carved battle-axe ; and the " Eeport of Observations of 

 Eclipse of the Sun," from the Lick Observatory, by Professor 

 Holden. 



New Member. — W. E. Fleming. 



Paper.—" Mount Cook and its Glaciers," by W. S. Curtis. 



