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PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTE OF CANTERBURY. 



Special Meeting : 27th March, 1912. 



Present: Dr. L. Cockayne, F.R.S., President, in the chair, and twenty- 

 seven others. 



Address. — " Heredity in Rehition to Practical Stock-breeding," by 

 Mr. A. Grant-Watson. 



A hearty vote of thanks was accorded the lecturer. 



First Meeting : 1st May, 1912. 



Present : Dr. L. Cockayne, F.R.S., President, in the chair, and thirty 



others. 



Congratulations. — The congratulations of the Institute were accorded 

 to Dr. Cockayne on the award to him of the Hector Medal, and also on 

 his election as a Fellow of the Royal Society. 



Address— M.Y- A. M. Wright, the retiring President, then delivered 

 his ex-23residential address on " The Chemist and the Community." 



Special Meeting : loth May, 1912. 



Present: Dr. L. Cockayne, F.R.S., President, in the chair, and seventy 



others. 



Address. — " Sleeping Sickness," by Dr. P. H. Ross, Bacteriologist 

 to the British East African Protectorate. 



A hearty vote of thanks was accorded the lecturer. 



Second Meeting : 5th June, 1912. 



Present: Dr. L. Cockayne, F.R.S., President, in the chair, and thirty 



others. 



New Members. — Messrs. Maurice Richmond, F. L. Mouldey, and 

 S. Fry. 



Papers. — 1. " The Chemistiy of Flesh Foods," by A. M. Wright. 

 2. Psychic i\spects of Evolution," by Johannes C. Andersen. 



