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Sir John Logan Campbell. — The President called the attention of the 

 meeting to the recent death of Sir John Logan Campbell, and the 

 announcement that had been made to the effect that the Auckland 

 Institute and Museum would receive a bequest of £1,000 under his will. 

 He moved the following resolution : — 



The Auckland Institute and Museum is desirous of recording at the earliest 

 possible opportunity its sincere and profound regret at the death of Sir John Logan 

 Campbell, a member of the Institute since 1872, for several years one of its Council, 

 and during the whole of his membership a liberal and consistent supporter of the 

 aims and interests of the Society. The Institute is proud to have numbered 

 among its members one who assisted in the foundation of this city and the esta- 

 blishment of its institutions, who during his lifetime contributed an unexampled 

 series of varied and far-reaching benefactions, and who at his death has provided 

 for so many large and important bequests, for one of which the sorrowful acknow- 

 ledgments of the Institute are due. The Institute also desires to express to Lady 

 Campbell its sincere and respectful condolence, and to assure her of its deep sym- 

 pathy in her affliction. 



The motion was seconded by the Vice-President (Mr. J. H. Upton), 

 and was carried unanimously. 



Lecture. — " A Gentleman of Atliens," by Professor H. S. Dettmann, 

 M.A. 



The main object of the lecture was to show that there was much in the daily 

 life of ancient Athens that came curiously close, even in points of detail, to our 

 own. It is possible to find parallels for many of our modern customs and even for 

 many of our modern jests. 



Third Meeting : Isf August, 1912. 



Professor H. W. Segar, President, in the chair. 



J^ectvre .-- " The Methods and Aims of Science." by E. Y. Miller. 



Abstract. 



The lecturer attempted to show what mental and physical operations are con- 

 cerned in the processes of scientific observation, experiment, and inference, touch- 

 ing on the subjects of scientific instruments and mathematics, and illustrating by 

 short accounts of scientific results. An account was given of the genesis and growth 

 of scientific theories, and in what way the latter, changing as they do from time 

 to time, are to be regarded in relation to experience and reality. The utilitarian 

 and intellectual aims of science were discussed, and a plan put forward for the 

 wider dissemination of the scientific habit of mind and mode of belief. 



Fourth Meeting : 29th AMgiist, 1912. 



Professor H. W. Segar, President, in the chair. 



Lecture. — " Coal : its Products and their Applications to the Needs 

 of Modern Life," by Mr. H. H. Morgan, B.Sc. 



Fifth Meeting : 26th September, 1912. 

 Professor H. W. Segar, President, in the cliair. 

 Lectvre.—'' The Child and the Race," by H. G. Cousins, M.A. 



