HAWKE BAY PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTE. 
First Meeting, 13th May, 1878. 
S. Locke in the chair. 
1. “A Memorandum of my First Journey to the Ruahine Mountain 
Range, and of the Flora of that Region " (Part I.), by W. Colenso, F.L.S. 
ANNUAL GENERAL Meeting, 8rd June, 1878. 
J. G. Kinross in the chair. 
New Members.—The Right Rev. the Bishop of Waiapu, Dr. Wood, Dr. 
De Lisle, Mr. W. J. Miller, Mr. J. W. Thomson. 
ELECTION or OFFICERS ror 1878-9 :— President —The Hon. J. D. Ormond, 
M.H.R.; Vice-president— The Right Rev. the Bishop of Waiapu ; Council— 
Messrs. Colenso, Kinross, Locke, Miller, Smith, Spencer, and Sturm; 
Hon. Secretary and Treasurer—W. Colenso ; Auditor—T. K. Newton. 
Resolved—That for the future the annual meeting shall be held in February instead 
of June 
ABSTRACT OF ANNUAL REPORT 
During the past year three ordinary meetings have been held, at which five papers by 
members were read. 
Of the sixty-nine members whose names were printed in our last year's report, one 
has since died (our former esteemed vice-president, the late Bishop of Waiapu, Dr. 
Williams, whose death the Council regrets to have to record) and five have removed from 
Hawke Bay, leaving sixty. three on the roll. To these will have to be added the names of 
five new members lately admitted, making a present total of sixty-eight. 
The books for the library, mentioned in last year's report, were duly sent out per 
*Queen Bee, which ship, however, was totally lost in Cook Strait. Those books were 
insured, and were re-ordered, and have subsequently been received here. An additional 
lot, to the amount of £65, has also been selected and ordered by the Council. 
During the past year a few desirable objects and botanieal speeimens have been 
collected by a few members for the Museum. 
The statement of accounts shows a balance of £120 15s. 5d. to the credit of the 
Institute, besides the sum of £100 placed in the Bank of New Zealand as a fixed deposit. 
Second MEETING. 10th June, 1878. 
The Right Rev. the Bishop of Waiapu, Vice-president, in the chair. 
1. “ Notes on the Metamorphosis of one of our largest Moths, Dasypodia 
selenophora,” by W. Colenso, F.L.S. (Transactions, p. 300.) 
The reared moth was also shown. 
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