WELLINGTON PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



First Meeting : Ind May, 1906. 

 Mr. Martin Chapman, President, in the chair. 



New Members. — Dr. Thomas A. Black and Dr. Charles Monro 

 Hector. 



Pafcrs. — 1. " Transpacific Longitudes," by Otto Klotz, 

 LL.D., F.R.A.S., Chief Astronomer to the Government of 

 Canada, Ottawa. 



2. " The Great Califon\ian Earthquake of 18th April, 1906," 

 by G. Hogben. M.A. 



Exhibits. — Mr. C. W. Adams exhibited two improved theodo- 

 lites, viz : — 



1. A 5 in. Cooke transit theodolite, reading by micrometers 

 to 10" and by estimation to 1". 



2. A 6 in. Kern transit theodolite, reading by scale micro- 

 ■scopes to 1' and by estimation to 6". 



Second Meeting : &th June, 1906. 



Mr. Martin Chapmaii, President, in the chair. 



Papers. — 1. " Recent Observations resjDccting the Origin of 

 the Vegetable Caterpillar," by G. V. Hudson, F.E.S. 



Ml-. A. Hamilton said that the specimen of vegetable caterpillar men- 

 tioned by Mr. Hudson as having been shown to him by the late Mr. N. J. 

 Tone was duplicated in the Otago Museum. Mr. Hamilton exhibited a 

 specimen of a fungus-infested caterpiHar which had been found in the 

 extreme north of New Zealand, probably a new species, 



2. " Some Stray Notes on the Kea and the Seagull," by 

 C. W. Adams. 



3. " A Few Facts about the French Metric System," by 

 C. W. Adams. 



Exhibits. — 1. The Rev. D. C. Bates exhibited a young guinea- 

 pig — one of a number bred in the laboratory of the Health 



