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Fifth Meeting : 28th September, 1912. 



Present : Mr. W. Kerr, M.A., Vice-President, in the chair, and a number 



of others. 



Microscope-slides. — The evening was spent in viewing microscope- 

 slides of many different objects. 



Sixth Meeting : 28t/i October, 1912. 

 japseil for want of a quorum. 



Seventh Meeting ; 29t]t November, 1912. 



Present : Mr. H. Hill, B.A., F.G.S., in the chair, and fifty-one others. 



Papers. — 1. " Liquid Air : its Preparation and Commercial Applica- 

 tions," by J. H. Edmundson. 



Illustrated by experiments with liquid air. 



2. " The Maori Dog and the Shepherd's Cur," by Taylor White. 



Neiv Members. — C. E. Armstrong, G. M. Piper, — Henderson, J. P. 



Annual Meeting : IStli. December, 1912. 



Present : Mi-. W. Kerr, Vice-President, in the chair, and a number of 



others. 



Annual Report. — The annual report was adopted. 



Abstract. 



Six general meetings and eight Council meetings were held during the year, 

 the attendance ranging from fifty downwards. 



Ten new members were elected ; the membership now stands at eighty-two. 



Twenty-three additions were made to the library. 



The balance-sheet shows a credit balance of ±'27 18s. 6d. 



Election of Officers. — President — W. Kerr, M.A.; Vice-President — 

 W. Dinwiddie; Hon. Secretary — J. Niven, M-A., M.Sc. ; Hon. Trea- 

 surer — J. Wilson Craig; Council — G. Clark, T. C. Moore, M.D., 

 W. Fossey, T. Hyde, G. K. Sinclair, and H. Hill, B.A., F.G.S.; Hon. 

 Avditor — J. S. Large; Hon. Lanternist — E. G- Loten. 



