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I have no doubt, to the same individual bird as the metacarpal figured in 
last year’s volume (Pl. XVII., fig. 3). The humerus is one-sixth of an inch 
larger than the same bone in the Brighton fossil, and has a more marine 
appearance. Judging from the proportion of the bones they must have 
belonged to a bird that had a stature of from six to seven feet,” 
Captain Hutton said he considered the age of the strata containing these 
bones to be upper eocene, and that they are therefore among the oldest bird 
remains known. 
Mr. Travers mentioned the recent observance of a rare parrot-fish in the 
market (Oda vittatus), the specimen of which had not been preserved. 
The President said there is a specimen of the fish in the Otago Museum, 
but none in the Colonial Museum. 
6. “ Notice of a New Species of Moth in New Zealand,” by W. L. 
Buller, D. Se., F.L.S. (See Transactions, p. 279.) 
FIFTEENTH MEETING. 13th November, 1872. 
Dr. Hector, F.R.S., President in the chair. 
New member —James Bull. 
1. “On the Life and Times of Te Rauparaha,” (Chapter VIL) by W. T. 
L. Travers, F.L.8. (See Transactions, p. 84.) j 
2. “Lecture on the Formation of Mountains,” by Capt. F. W. Hutton, 
F.G.S., C.M.Z.S. (See Appendix, p, xxv.) 
The President congratulated Capt. Hutton upon having revived and so 
ably developed this ingenious theory, and thanked him on behalf of the 
meeting for placing before the members of the Society so difficult a subject in 
such a lucid manner. 
SIXTH ÅNNUAL GENERAL MEETING. Ist February, 1873. 
James Hector, M.D., F.R.S., President, in the chair. 
ABSTRACT REPORT OF COUNCIL. 
During the past year fifteen general meetings have been held, which have 
been on the whole much better attended than in previous years. Forty-eight 
papers have been read, and most of them will appear in Vol. V. of the 
Transactions. The Proceedings of the Society have been regularly published 
