xxvi : Proceedings, &c. 



20th October, 1862. 



Ordinary Meeting. 



The Rev. J. J. Bleasdale, D.D., &c, Vice President, in the chair. 



The following gentlemen's names were read as candidates for 

 election as Ordinary Members at the next Ordinary Meeting : — 



John Swanston Sprent, Esq. 



For Honorary Membership : 



Julius Haast, Esq, Ph.D., F.G.S., President of the Philosophical 



Institution, Canterbury, N.Z. 



The following contributions were laid on the table : — No. 4 of 

 Vol. VI. of the Proceedings of the . " Eoyal Geographical Society, 

 London" — presented by the Society. 



Samples of Native Flax, F. Linum marginals, sent by Lieut.- 

 Col. J. E. N. Bull, were submitted, with a letter from the President. 



Dr. Mueller considered the flax submitted equal to the flax of 

 commerce. 



The remaining business was postponed. 



(Signed) Ferdinand Mukller. 



17th November, 1862. 



11th November, 1862. 



Ordinary Meeting. 



Dr. F. Mueller in the chair. 



The gentlemen nominated at the last meeting for Ordinary and 

 Honorary Membership were balloted for and declared duly elected. 



The following contributions were laid on the table : — " Recherches 

 sur l'Evolution des Araignees, par M. Edouard Claparede." 

 " Entwickelungsgeschichte der Ampullaria polita Deshayes nebst 

 Mittheilungen liber die Entwickelungsgeschichte einiger Andern 

 Gastropoden aus den Tropen." " Verslag van het Verhandelde in 

 de Algemeene Vergadering " (5 parts). " Aanteekeningen van het 

 Verhandelde in Sectie-vergaderingen " (6 parts) — presented by the 

 Utrecht Society of Arts and Sciences. " Twelve Papers on Geology, 

 &c," by the Rev. Samuel Haughton, M. A. ; " Journal of the Geo- 

 logical Society of Dublin," Vol. III. Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, Vol. IV. Parts 

 1, 2, Vol. V. Parts 1, 2, 3, Vol. VI. Parts 1, 2, Vol. VII. Parts 1, 

 4, 5, Vol. VIII. Parts 2? 3 — presented by the Geological Society of 

 Dublin. " Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Phil- 

 adelphia," for I860 — presented by the Academy of Philadelphia. 

 " Ansprache der Geologischen Reichsanstalt" vonWilhelmHaidinger; 

 " Fossile Mollusken " von Dr. Moriz Bornes ; " Jahrbuch der K.K. 



