CONTENTS. 



Report of the Committee appointed to consider the question of 



Antarctic Exploration . . . . . . . . 546-547 



Report of the Committee appointed to investigate the question 



of Rust in Wheat .. .. .. .. 547-550 



LECTURES. 



Oysters and Oyster-culture in Australasia. By W. Saville-Kent, 

 P.L.S., P.Z.S., V.P.A.A.Sc. 1891, Commissioner of Fisheries, 

 Queensland . . . . . . . . . . 551-573 



A Short History of Vocal Music from its Earliest Times to the 

 Time of Palestrina (Sixteenth Century), together with a Brief 

 Description of some of its Principal Forms of Development 

 from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries. By G. P. 

 Tendall, Mus. Bac. Oxon. and N.Z., Organist and Choir- 

 master of Christchurch Cathedral, and Honorary Llember of 

 the College of Organists Lond. . . . . . . 574-591 



The Glaciers of the Tasman Valley. By G. E. Llannering 591-592 



ADDENDUM. 



On the Characteristics of the Nor'-westers of Canterbury, N.Z. By 



J. T. Meeson, B.A. . . . . . . . . 593-595 



List of Members . . . . . . . . . . 597-612 



Index of Authors . . . . . . . . . . 61B-615 



Index of Subjects . . . . . . . . . . 617-620 



ERRATA. 

 Page 133. Line 22, for 3m. -4m., read 3-4mm. 

 „ 270. In title of paper 3, /o?' Chapmam, ?-eacZ Chapman. 



