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Dolphin had not been obtained for description since the time of Captain Cook 
until now. 
2. * Notes on the Glacial Period," by A. D. Dobson, C.E. 
This paper was read by Dr. Hector, who made some remarks regarding it, 
and said that more exact information and sections were required before 
anything definite could be said on the subject. Не considered that many 
of the auriferous alluvial deposits that rest on shelves at a high elevation, 
nearly parallel with and close to the coast, were left in this position by the 
erosive action of the sea destroying the seaward side of the valley in which 
they were originally formed. The cliffs, on the top of which they rest, must 
atleast have been cut by the sea since these alluviums were formed. He, 
however, agreed with the writer in most of his conclusions. 
The Chairman agreed with the author that the gravels of the Moutere 
Hills in Nelson were older than the glaciers, but the Canterbury Plains could 
be proved to be younger than them. At Motanau, on the East Coast, a raised 
beach with recent marine shells occurred at an altitude of more than 100 feet 
above the sea, while at the mouth of the Conway the raised beaches attained 
an altitude of 300 feet. He had never visited the West Coast, but Mr. 
Hacket had described the moraines at Okarito as being rudely stratified, and 
containing rounded boulders of granite, while at a height of 200 to 300 feet 
above the sea they were all levelled at the top. This could only be due to 
marine action. He could not agree with Dr. Hector that the beach terraces 
on the West Coast were valley terraces, one half of the valley having been 
washed away by the sea, because he thought that rain would have removed 
the terraces before the sea could wash away the other half of the valley. 
3. “On the Spread of Cassinia leptophylla,” by W. Т. L. Travers, F.L.S. 
(Transactions, p. 248.) 
4. “On some New Species of New Zealand Plants,” by John Buchanan, 
of the Geological Survey of New Zealand. (Transactions, p. 241.) 
5. “Notes on the New Zealand Wood-hens (Ocydromus),” by Captain 
F. W. Hutton, C. M.Z.S. (Transactions, p. 110.) 
6. * Notes on some New Zealand Fishes" by Captain F. W. Hutton, 
C.M.Z.S. (Transactions, p. 104.) : 
7. “An Introduction to the Study and Collection of the Araneidea in New 
Zealand. With a Description and Figures of Cambridgea fasciata, L. Koch, 
from Chatham Island; and also of a New Species of Macrothele, Auss., 
M. huttonii, Cambr., found at Wellington, New Zealand,” by the Rev. O. P. 
Cambridge, M.A., C. M.Z.S. (Transactions, p. 187.) 
The first part only of the paper was read at this meeting. 
