446 Proceedinys. 



WANGANUI PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY 



The Society was founded at a meeting held on Thui-sda}-, the 24:th 

 August, 1911, in the Museum Hall, Wanganui. Addresses were delivered 

 by Dr. Hatherly, who presided; Mr. A. Hamilton, Dominion Museum, 

 Wellington; Rev. J. L. Dove, M.A.; Mr. Louis Cohen, LL.B.; Mr. C. E. 

 Mackay, Mayor of Wanganui; and others. Sixty-four of those who 

 attended the meeting indicated their intention to become members or 

 associates of the newly formed Society. 



The Society was incorporated with the New Zealand Institute on the 

 2nd December, 1911. 



Ojfieerx. — President — Dr. Hatherly, M.R.C.S. ; Vice-Presidents — 

 Rev. J. LI. Dove, M.A., Mr. J. T. Ward; Council— Messva. T. Allison, 

 G. D. Braik, M.A., Louis Cohen, M.A., T. W. Downes, H. W. Hesse, 

 B.A., B.Sc, F.L.S., R. Murdoch, H. B. Watson, M.A., James Watt, 

 LL.B.; Hon. Treasurer — Mr. F. P. Talboys; Eon. Secretary — Mr. J. P. 

 Williamson. 



First Meeting : 'BQth September, 1911. 



Dr. H. R. Hatherly, President, in the chair. 



Lecture. — " The Original Discovery of New Zealand in the Ninth- 

 Tenth Century," by Mr. S. Percy Smith, F.R.G.S. 



Second Meeting : 2nd October, 1911. 

 Dr. H. R. Hatherl}-, President, in the chair. 

 Rides. — Rules and by-laws for the Society were adopted. 



Third Meeting : 16th October, 1911. 

 Mr. J. 1. Ward, Vice-President, in the chair. 



Papers on " Tlie Character of Macbeth " were contributed by 

 Mr. G. D. Braik, M.A., Mr. J. H. Keesing, and Dr. Hatherly; and 

 a paper on "Prehistoric Man: Recent European Discoveries," by 

 Mr. H. W. Hesse, B.A., B.Sc. 



Mr. H. B. Watson exhibited some specimens of Japanese ceramic 

 art; Mi'. S. G. Harper, old books, newspapers, and illuminated manu- 

 scripts; and Mr. H. W. Hesse, native fibres from Fiji. 



