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Fourth Meeting: 7th August, 1898. 



Dr. Moore, President, in the chair. 



Paper. — " Forms of Burial : a Plea for Cremation," by Mr. 

 P. S. McLean. 



Fifth Meeting: 11th September, 1893. 



Dr. Moore, President, in the chair. 



Papers. — " Mohammedanism and its Present Eelations 

 with Cln'istianity," by the Bishop of Waiapu. 



2. " Some Difficulties of a Self-taught Student of Che- 

 mistry," by C. J. Cooke. 



3. "The Dog of New Zealand: a Eeply to Mr. Colenso," 

 by Taylor White. {Transactions, p. 585.) 



4. "Pebbles and Drifting Sand," by E. W. Andrews. 

 {Transactions, p. 397.) 



Sixth Meeting : 9th October, 1893. 



Mr. J. W. Craig in the chair. 



Papers. — 1. " lulus fijiensis," by Rev. W. Colenso, F.E.S., 

 F.L.S. {Transactions, p. 106.) 



2. "List of Fungi recently collected in the Bush Dis- 

 trict," by Eev. W. Colenso, F.E.S., F.L.S. {Transactions, 

 p. 320.) 



3. "On Four Notable Foreign Plants" (notes on the 

 banana, vanilla, edelweiss, and rose of Jericho), by Eev. W. 

 Colenso, F.E.S., F.L.S. {Transactions, p. 333.) 



4. The Effect of Electricity on Plant-growth," by H. N. 

 McLeod. {Transactions, p. 463.) 



5. " How Spiders walk on Water," by Taylor White. 



Prior to the papers being read, Mr. Colenso made some remarks appro- 

 priate to the anniversary of Captain Cook's arrival in Hawke's Bay, and 

 read extracts from a letter from Sir Joseph D. Hooker relating to the 

 recent discovery of Sir J. Banks's manuscript narrative of the " First 

 Voyage." 



Abstract of Annual Report. 

 Your Council beg to report that six ordinary meetings were held 

 during the session, and were well attended by members and their friends. 

 The plan of providing tea and coffee, which was adopted for the first time 



