528 Proceedings. 



Sixth Meeting. 6 th August, 1874. 



G. W. Hall, Vice-president, in the chair 



New member. — Professor A. W. Bickerton. 

 No papers were read. 



Seventh Meeting. 3rd September, 1874. 



Julius Haast, Ph.D., F.R.S., President, in the chair. 



Several presents from the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, were laid 

 on the table. 



The President read an extract from a letter of Comme Giordano, Inspector 

 of Mines of the Kingdom of Italy, respecting the formation of the Canterbury- 

 plains. 



Eighth Meeting (Special). 15th September, 1874. 



G. W. Hall, Vice-president, in the chair. 



1. " Description of a new Crustacean (Phronima novce-zealandice)," by LI. 

 Powell, M.D. (Transactions, p. 294.) 



2. " On the Occurrence of Leptocephalus longirostris, Kanp, on the Coast 

 erf New Zealand," by Julius Haast, Ph.D., F.K.S. (Transactions, p. 238.) 



and 



illustrated with 



Haast, Ph.D., F.R.S. (Transactions, 

 following postscript was appended 



Postscript. — In the Press of 13th August 



bein 



before the Philosophical Society in "Wellington, for A. McKay, on the 

 excavations made by me in that locality, end of 1872, and during which the 

 said A. McKay was one of the labourers employed by me. 



New Zealand 



with the following 

 "The ext)lorai 



collections and notes which 



occupied seven weeks, and on its completion the 



Haast. and 



paper now read was chiefly occupied with the author's own views on the 

 question — whether the moa-hunters were possessed of tools other than those of 

 the rudest description, and whether there were any facts constituting a 

 difference between them and the Maoris of later times." 



The beginning of this sentence, which I shall show in the sequel, consists 

 of an untruth, might lead one to suppose that the so-called author has 



committed 



