86 Proceedings. 



PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTE OF CANTERBURY. 



Kk^hth Meeting : J/k/ Xorcnihvr. 1910. 



Present: Mr. K. M. Laiiiu', Presi(U'iit. in tin' cliaii', and sixty others. 



yew Member.^. — Messrs. A. li. .Marsliall. N. C. Staveley, G. W. 

 Bishop, and M. H. ftodbv. 



Captain Scott, of the British Antarctic Expedition, wrote acknow- 

 ledging with thanks the offer of the Institute to place its library at the 

 disposal of the officers of the " Tei'ra Xova.'" 



Anirnah I'ruttctton Act. — A eopy of the Animals Protection Act as 

 amended by the Legislative Council was received from Colonel Heaton 

 Rhodes, M.P. General approval of tlie Act in its present form was 

 expressed by the meeting, and a liearty vote of tlianks was accorded to 

 Colonel Rhodes for his energetic snp})ort of the proposals sul)niitted to 

 the (Tovernment by the Institute. 



Paptrs. — 1. "Classification of Britisli Pocrry : the Verse-unit." by 



Johannes C. Andersen. 



This is the second paper dealing with the analysis of the units that I'onn the 

 metrical scheme of poetry. The former paper analysed the "foot" or "stress- 

 unit"'; the present paper analyses the "line" or "verse-unit." The lyric line 

 only is dealt with : the heroic and blank verse must be the subject of separate 

 analysis. It is shown that the lyric verse (the two lines as ordinarily printed) is 

 normally a verse of eight stress-units, with varying number of syllables. The 

 ordinary ballad verse of seven stress-units still observes the eighth in its end-pause ; 

 the Alexandrine and Nibelungen meties of six stiess-units observe mid and end 

 2jauses. Upon these four main types is built the whole body of lyric poetry. The 

 paper shows how certain constant variations may be taken as the forms for classi- 

 fying poetry. 



2. "Further Notes on New Zealand Bird-song."" by Joliannes C. 

 Andersen. 



This is a continuation of a previous paper, and it contains all the new notes 

 or songs, or variations of the same, Avhich have been recorded since the last paper 

 was printed. 



'.\. "The liaTc of Oxidation of .\cetablelivde to Acetic Acid," I)v 

 D. B. Macdeod. 



-t. "The Conductivity of Aipieous Solutions of Carbon-dioxide pre- 

 pared under Pressures of from One to Thirty Atniosiiheres," by C. M. 

 Stubbs ; communicated by Dr. W. P. Evans. 



5. "The Depression of the Fi'eezing-point by Carbon-dioxiik'. by 

 F D. Farrow. 



6. "Tile Veh)cit\ of Evolution of Oxygen from iileaching Powder 

 Solutions in Presence of Small <^hlantities of Col)ali Nitrate." bv N. .M . 

 Bell. 



7. "The Chemical Composition of Meat-exti'act." I)y A. .M . ^V!•iuht. 



8. "On certain Changes in tlie Composition of The Nitrogenous Con- 

 stituents of Meat-e.xtract," l)y A. M. Wright. 



