534 Proceedings. 



Special General Meeting. 23rd December, 1874. 



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



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W. Stack. (Appendix) 

 >ns of the South Island," 



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3. "On a simple Telegraph Code, by a Modification of the Morse Instru- 



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F.L.S. (Transactions, p. 220.) 



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Buller, D.Sc, F.L.S. (Transactions, p. 219.) 



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Sumner," by Julius Haast, Ph.D., F.R.S. (Transactions, p. 86.) 



7. "Notes on the Moa-hunter Encampment at Shag Point, Otago," by 

 J ulius Haast, Ph. D. , F. R, S. ( Transactions, p. 91.) 



Special General Meeting. 5th January, 1875. 



Haast 



Hector, dated Well 



ton, 22nd December, 1874, together with various documents referring to the 



Mr. McKay 



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Dr. Haast read the following protest : 



Institute. 



21st December, I cannot let pass without entering my protest against the 

 mode in which it glosses over the breach of faith committed by my former 



bordinate 



Resolution No. 2 talks of 

 the paper as if its subject were not the Sumner Moa-bone Cave, but as if it 



revision 



excavation of that cave. It ignores the fact that the paper could not have 



been written, linrl T -n^f ***** +« a-l^ x„ t* _n -■ . ™ ^ 



founded 



conducted under my superintendence, and for a servant to publish or make 



been 



guidance 



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