432 Proceedings. 
Mr. Travers gave an account of how the reclamation of land is effected 
near Bordeaux. 
Mr. J. D. Enys pointed out that there was a dwarf gum tree in Tasmania 
that might be useful for this purpose. 
The President said it was not merely the question of reclaiming land but 
also the protection of good land, and often of important works, mentioning the, 
Cape Farewell lighthouse as an instance where protection against the eae 
of the sand is an important consideration. 
Mr. Travers exhibited a variety of the blue penguin n: LBudgntula minor) 
recently captured at Evans Bay. 
Mr. J. D. Enys exhibited the jaw of a tuatara, which he had found near 
Lyall Bay, and the skull of an ancient Maori dog which he had found in the 
cooking ovens at Paikakariki along with the bones of moas and men. 
Tento Meetine. 2nd October, 1872. 
Dr. Hector, F.R.S., President, in the chair. 
1. “On the Life and Times of Te Rauparaha,” Chapter IV., by W. T. L. 
Travers, F.L.S. (See Transactions, p. 51.) 
Embracing the period from 1770 to 1817, and bringing down the account 
of that eventful period to the first’ conquest of the native tribes and the 
migration of the chief from Kawhia to Wanganui. 
The President said in reference to a remark relative to Kawhia harbour 
that he had been there on board H.M.S. “Eclipse,” and that he thought it 
would yet be a most important settlement. 
2. “On the New Zealand Sertularians,” by Capt. F. W. Hutton, C.M.Z.S. 
(See Zransactions, p. 256.) 
The author enumerated thirteen species, twelve of which he had found in 
Lyall Bay, eight of these being new to the New Zealand fauna, and five new 
to science. 
The President gave a short account of the Turner reef, which had been 
discovered near Jackson harbour, on the south side of Cook Strait. The reef 
had been traced on the surface for about 1000 feet, crossing the promontory 
between Queen Charlotte Sound and Point Gore, and yields on an average, by 
several analyses, half an ounce to the ton. Some specimens are, however, 
very rich. The rock is a foliated schist, and quite different from the rock in 
which the gold is found on Baker’s Hill and Terawiti, which has more 
resemblance to the bed rock at the Inangahua reefs.* 
_ * See Geological Reports, 1872, p. 125. 
