428 Proceedings. 



WELLINGTON PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



First xMeeting : 1st May, 1912. 



Present : Mr. G. V. Hudson, President, in the chair, and about forty 



members and friends. 



The President referred to the improvements made in the lecture- 

 room, and conveyed the thanks of the Society to the Director of the 

 Museum, Mr. A. Hamilton, for his action in the matter. 



New Member. — Mr. M. H. Browne. 



Papers. — 1. " The Axioms of Geometry," by Professor D. K. Picken. 



2. " Notes on the Entomology of the Ohakune and Waiouru Dis- 

 tricts," by G. V. Hudson, F.E.S.' 



3. " Description of a New Species of Perla (Stone-fly) in New Zea- 

 land," by G. V. Hudson, F.E.S, 



4. " On Two Blepharocerids from New Zealand," by C. G. Lamb, 

 M.A., B.Sc, Clare College, Cambridge; communicated by the President, 

 Mr. G. V. Hudson. 



5. " Remarks on the Domestic Depravity of a Queensland Ant," by 

 G. V. Hudson. 



6. " Somatochlora hraueri in New Zealand," by A. Hamilton. 



7. " Localities of Lepidoptera in New Zealand," by A. Hamilton. 



8. '^ Deinacrida rugosa Buller," by A. Hamilton. 



Exhibit. — Mr. A. Hamilton exhibited a number of wetas from the 

 Museum collections. 



Seco]vd Meeting : 29tii Maiu 1912. 



Present : Mr. G. V. Hudson, Pi-esident, in the chair, and about sixty 

 members and their friends. 



A copy of the report of the second International Congress of Entomo- 

 logists was received from the Chairman of Conunittee for Australasia, 

 and read by tlie President, a number of copies being afterwards laid 

 on the table for use of members. 



Address. — " Early Cook Strait Incidents," by the Hon. Robert 

 McNab. 



Thikd Meeting : 36f/i June, 1912. 



Present : Mi'. G. Y. Hudson, President, in the chair, and about seventy 

 members and their friends. 



• The President announced that the Council had resolved to congratu- 

 late Dr. Cockayne on being elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, 

 London. 



Paper. — " The Heat-conductivity of Gases and Heat-insulators," 

 bv Professor T. H. Labv and Mr. M. Alexander. 



