628 Proceedings. 



Fourth Meeting : 11th August, 1896. 

 Mr. A. Hamilton, President, in the chair. 



Neiu Members. — J. H. Stanley, John Blair, T. J. Collins. 



Mr. C. W. Adams gave a lecture on " Fire-raising by Fric- 

 tion." The lecture was illustrated by two Maoris, Hamahona. 

 Tiro and Hoani Eakiraki, who produced fire by the stick-and- 

 groove method. 



Dr. Hocken read a note " On a Piece of Aztec Statuary 

 representing the Sacrifice of a Human Victim." 



Fifth Meeting : 8th September, 1896. 

 Mr. A. Hamilton, President, in the chair. 



Neiv Member. — Dr. W. Allan. 



Professor Parker announced that a nearly-complete skele- 

 ton of Harpagornis had, through the kind offices of Messrs. N. 

 and G. Donaldson, been deposited in the Museum. The bones, 

 with numerous other avian reinains, had been sluiced out of 

 Messrs. Donaldson's claim at Macrae's. 



Mr. George Hogben, M.A., Eector of the Timaru High 

 School, gave an account of the work and aims of the Inter- 

 national Seismological Committee, one of the stations of 

 which it was proposed to establish at Timaru, under his 

 superintendence . 



The President announced that the Council had made a 

 grant of £10 towards the expense of purchasing, erecting, and 

 maintaining for one year the necessary instruments at the 

 Timaru station. 



Paper. — " The Else and Growth of the New Zealand Con- 

 stitution," by Dr. Hocken. 



Sixth Meeting : 18th October, 1896. 

 Mr. A. Hamilton, President, in the chair. 



The following resolution was passed : " That this Institute 

 has heard with profound regret of the death of the dis- 

 tinguished botanist Baron Sir Ferdinand von Mueller, and 

 desires to place on record its sense of his eminent services to 

 science." 



Mr. G. M. Thomson exhibited, and handed over to the 

 Otago University Museum, some fossil remains which had 



