552 Proceedings. 
2. “On the Storage of Energy by utilizing Water Power," by J. C. 
Crawford. 
ABSTRACT 
He called attention to the splendid water supply in the neighbourhood of Wellington 
—the best, perhaps, in the Colony—for the generation of electricity for lighting the towns 
and manufacturing purposes. 
3. Dr. Hector gave some interesting information relative to recent tidal disturbances. 
He expressed his opinion that the disturbance in Wellington harbour and along the coast 
of New Zealand yesterday morning had been caused by the voleanie eruption which took 
place at Krakatoa, in the Straits of Sunda, on Monday last, telegraphic intelligence of 
which appeared in last evening’s paper. In the course of his remarks, Dr. Hector men- 
tioned that the Straits of Sunda had always been remarkable for the eruptions which 
d tl and tradition i 1 thei 
g formation and separation of the Islands of Java 
and Sumatra to a violent convulsion during the eleventh century. One eruption in the 
year 1772 swallowed up a tract of country fifteen miles long and six broad, and destroyed 
about 3,000 people. This was followed in 1815 by a violent disturbance which resulted 
in the loss of 7,000 lives, and the noise of which was heard 1,000 miles away ; it would be 
interesting to trace the length of time occupied by the wave in reaching the shores of New 
aland 
4, “ Lecture on the Lower Miocene Formation in New Zealand,” by Dr. 
Hector. 
ABSTRACT. 
An interesting geological lecture, illustrated by large maps and sections and large 
collections of fossils, and dealing with the subject of the date of the last great emergence 
of the land in the south of New Zealand. 
Mr McKay said that if the glaciers had their greatest extension in Pliocene times it 
appeared that, considering the amount of strata of intermediate age, it was difficult to 
regard the Awamoa beds as belonging to the Upper Miocene period. The percentage of 
recent fossils indicated these beds as belonging to the Lower Miocene period, and thus the 
paleontological evidence was in accordance with the stratigraphical. 
Mr. Travers referred to the important bearing of this subject on the origin of the 
fauna and flora of the country. 
5. Dr. Hector exhibited several additions to the Museum, viz., skull of frigate bird, 
gannet, jaw of parrot fish, from Jervois Island, presented by Mr. H. Winkelmann ; also, 
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marine fossils from interior lake basins of Otago. 
Seventa Mugrmo. 26th September, 1888. 
The Hon. G. R. Johnson, President, in the chair. 
New Members.—Dr. Sidney Skerman, C. C. Howard. 
1. * On a new Lycopodium,” by T. Kirk, F.L.S., named Gracile, and 
found in Nelson. (Transactions, p. 376.) 
2, “On a Bird-catching Tree," by Mr. R. H. Govett. (Transactions, 
p. 964.) 
Dr. Hector conjectured that the viscid matter exuded from the seeds when ripe was 
an incident of evolution, the seed attaching itself to a live bird, and so getting carried 
away and dropped elsewhere for germination. 
