PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTE OF 

 CANTERBURY. 



First Meeting : 2nd May, 1906. 

 Mr. R. Speight, President, in the chair. 



Dr. Farr prefaced his ex-presidcntial address by expressing 

 his regret that the committee of the New Zealand Institute 

 appointed to organize the Hiitton Memorial Fund had been 

 confined to members of the Canterbury Institute. He also 

 announced that the magnetic surve\ of New Zealand w;'.s almost 

 completed. 



Dr. Farr then delivered an address on " Electric Waves," 

 which was illustrated by numerous experiments. 



Second Meeting : ^th June, 1906. 

 Mr. R. Speight, President, in the chair. 



New Members.— Mm. Hutton, Miss F. Sheard, Professor Mac- 

 millan Brown, Mr. Charles Lewis, M.H.R.. the Rev. A. B. 

 Chappell, Messrs. Coles, J. C. N. Grigg, J. Hartley Smith, 

 Shrimpton, Chevassus, Waite. McCullough, Foster, Mulgan, 

 Howell, Spiller, Newell. R. Herdman Smith, and C. H. A. T. 

 Opie. 



Address. — Mr. E. K. Mulgan. M.A., delivered an address on 

 " The Home of the Kauri." 



Papei . — " On the Occurrenc'' of Fredericella sultana in New 

 Zealand," by Professor Dendy ; communicated bv Dr. Chiltoii. 



Third Meeting : llth Jukj, 1906. 

 Mr. R. Speight, Prtsident, in the chair. 



The President welcomed Mr. Heinibrod, ot the Pacific Mag- 

 netic Survey, to the meeting. 



New Members. — Miss Grant, Messrs. H. Allisoji and W. S. 

 Wright. 



Address. — Mr. P. H. Powell, M.Sc, gave an address entitled 

 " The Experimental Study of Ceitain Magnetic Problems by 

 the Aid of the Stream Lines in the Flow of a Perfect Fluid." 



Paper. — " On the Occurrence in New Zealand of Platalea 

 regia, Gould," by Mr. T. Iredale. 



