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where he quotes: "Jamaica cotton is sold at i6d. per lb., 

 some of the very choicest i6|d. per lb., Leeward Islands i4d. 

 per lb." 



Dr. F. H. Bowman stated that, in conjunction with his son, 

 he had succeeded in constructing an apparatus for obtaining 

 motive power direct from the combustion of coal at a very high 

 temperature, a gas engine giving lo indicated horse power being 

 driven with a generator occupying a remarkably small space. 



Mr. J. C. Melvill communicated a paper by Mr. Peter 

 Cameron, entitled " Note on two probably introduced 

 Parasitic Hymenoptera in New Zealand." 



Mr. W. E. HoYLE exhibited two carved wooden bowls from 

 British Columbia, and referred to the skill shown by the Indians, 

 who have acquired great technical power, realistic figures in the 

 round being well within their capacity to execute. Interesting 

 examples are found in a dancing bat formed like a seal's head, 

 in a float shaped like a swimming puffin, and in a rattle which 

 represents a swimming goose, the colour and form of the latter 

 being singularly true to nature. 



When, however, the problem is to apply an animal form to 

 the adornment of a particularly shaped decorative field, the con- 

 ditions are altered, and aie the more complex because the 

 conventions of the country require that all the special character- 

 istics of the animal be given ; for instance, in a totem pole 

 representing the beaver, the position of the ears indicates that an 

 animal and not a human form is intended, the two large incisor 

 teeth indicate a rodent, and various other signs make it clear 

 that the animal depicted is a beaver. Similar examples of the 

 treatment of animal forms are found in dancing masks, fish 

 hooks, etc. 



When the artist goes to work to draw the whole of an animal 

 in a flat field of definite form, we have a series of remarkable 

 phenomena, every characteristic of the animal being reproduced 

 in portions, fitted in wherever there is room. For instance, in an 

 animal represented on a box, the whole box stands for the 

 animal, the front view being at one end, the back at the other, 



