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services being provided out of the funds of the Institute. 6. That the selection of papers 
for publication in the ** Transactions" be made in the first instance by the Councils of 
the affiliated EEY the final decision in each case to rest with the Board of Governors. 
It was resolved to send copies of these recommendations to the various Affiliated 
Societies, inviting t their consideration of the proposed changes, and their co-operation in 
carrying out the objects des ; attention being drawn to the fact that certain of the 
ecommen Mur an be pene out without affecting ** The New Zealand Institute Act, 
1867," while others will involve the amendment of that Act 
FounrH MzzrmG. 12th August, 1884. 
D. Petrie, M.A., President, in the Chair. 
1. The Secretary gave a verbal account of a paper by Mr. Alex. Purdie, 
M.A., * On the Anatomy of the Sea Mussel (Mytilus latus)."' 
2. “Description of three new Species of Uncinia,” by D. Petrie, 
M. * (Transactions, p. 271.) 
8. ** Description of a new Species of Carmichalia, with Notes on the Dis- 
tribution of the Species native to Otago," by D. Petrie. (Transactions, 
p. 272.) 
4. The Secretary exhibited and made — —— Some stuffed fishes isi 
cerine process), and skeletons of Skat dT (gly jelly process). bryos 
of Sepiola sp., found in Dunedin nee by F. Bourne, one of the Museum etes 
Hitherto this genus vor only been recorded in the colony at Wellington (S. pacijica, 
T. W. Kirk). c. A living specimen of the Laughing Owl (Sceloglaux albifacies), obtained 
at Outram by Mr. Sydney Fulton. 
Fiera Meretine. 9th September, 1884. 
A. Montgomery, Vice-president, in the chair. 
Dr. Hocken delivered his third lecture on ** The Early History of New 
Zealand." 
Sra Meetine. 14th October, 1884. 
D. Petrie, M.A., President, in the chair. 
1. ** Notes on New Zealand Fishes,” by W. Arthur, C.E. (Transactions, 
p. 160.) 
9. ** Notes on the Skeleton and Baleen of a Fin-whale (Balenoptera mus- 
culus?) recently aequired by the Otago University Museum," by T. Jeffery 
Parker, B.Sc.Lond., Professor of Biology in the University of Otago. 
(Transactions, p. 8.) : 
3. The Secretary exhibited a stuffed specimen of Kathetostoma giganteum, recently 
prepared for the Museum 
