4, ANNUAL MEETING, 
“The Maoris’ Place in History.” By Josnua Rutan, Esq. 
“The Arab Immigration into South-east Madagascar.” By Rev. 
G. A. SHaw, F.Z.S. 
2. ZOoLoGy. 
“ Notes on Hornets and Grasshoppers.” By Rev, F. A. WALKER, 
DID, EES. 
3. GEOLOGY, 
“Evolution from a Geological point of View.” By Rev. G, F. 
Wuipporns, M.A., F.G.S. 
“Time Divisions of the Ice Age.” By Warren Upnam, Esq., 
F.G.S.Amer, 
4, GEOGRAPHY. 
“Visit to the Hittite Cities, Eyuk and Boghaz.” By Rev. G. E. 
Wuitt, Marsovaen. 
“ Ancient Script in Australia.” By E. J. Sratuam, Esq., C.E. 
Se aE 
“The Relation of Religion and Art.” By Rev. T. Hunter Boyp. 
“The Sacrament of Divine Art.” By Ernest NEWLANDSMITH, Esq. 
The “Annuat Apprgss,” by Sir Rosert S. Batt, LL.D., F.RS., 
Professor of Astronomy, Cambridge University, on “The Origin 
of New Stars,” to be delivered this afternoon, 
8. The Journal of Transactions. 
The King, followimg the custom of Her late Majesty, His 
illustrious mother, has been graciously pleased to add the 
last volume of the Transactions to the Royal Library. 
The thirty-third volume of the Journal of Transactions 
will shortly be issued. It will contain the subjects brought 
before meetings of the Institute and discussed, together with 
the communications received from Members in the country 
and abroad, who have added to the value of those discussions 
by sending in communications on the subjects considered. 
The careful correction of the papers, discussions, and 
communications, by their respective authors, often involving 
repeated communications even with distant lands, and refer- 
ences to the views of other investigators who have made 
the subjects treated matters of research, is at times a cause 
of delay in the publication of the Journal containing them, 
but the result is to give the Volume of Transactions 
the character of a finished work. From time to time 
Members of the Institute and others have expressed their 
high sense of the value of the Transactions of the Institute, 
inasmuch as they contain, not the views of any one person 
only, but the well-considered opinions of many, resident in various 
and even distant parts of the world. ‘This system gives a 
