Otago Institute. 549 



adhering to them. The Maoris also spoke of a cave near Moeraki, and 

 another near Saddle Hill, where a number of bones could be procured, but I 

 never saw either cave. 



" Wben I came down, in 1856, the Moa was nearly as much a bird of the 

 past as it is now, and settlers spoke of the chance of seeing one as very 

 improbable j at the same time wishing they could, as if they succeeded in 

 capturing one they would have considered their fortune made. Eighteen years 

 have passed since then, and no sign of one has been seen, and every year the 

 weather-beaten bones are becoming fewer and fewer, yet, from their peculiar 

 structure, should a small piece by any accident be stumbled upon it is easily 

 distinguished from the hollow marrow bones of the horse or ox." 



5. " Comparison of the Marine Mollusca of South Australia with those of 

 New Zealand," by W. Beddnal ; communicated by Captain Hutton. 



The author shows that, as far as our present knowledge extends, thirty -five 

 species are common to New Zealand and South Australia j sixty-five species 

 common to New Zealand and New South Wales j twenty-eight species common 

 to New Zealand and Tasmania ; seventy-five species common to South Aus- 

 tralia and Tasmania, and ninety-nine species common to South Australia and 

 New South Wales. 



6. "Descriptions of three new Tertiary Shells in the Otago Museum," by 

 Captain F. W. Hutton, F.G.S. (Transactions, p. 458.) 



7. " Descriptions of two new species of Aplasia" by Captain F. W. Hutton, 

 C.M.Z.S. (Transactions, p. 279.) 



Annual General Meeting. Is^ February, 1875. 



J. T. Thomson, F.R.G.S., President, in the chair. 



J^ew members. — Dr. W. Brown, Palmerston, Thos. Dick, Ed. Menlove, 

 Oamaru, L. O. Beal, John Boberts, Duncan McKellar, Cromwell, G. W. 

 Elliot, James Mills, J. H. Harris, W. H. Cutten, David Boss, W. J. M. 

 Larnach, G. L. Sise, Be v. B. L. Stanford, Keith Bamsay, Bobert McLaren, 

 W. C. Boberts, W. Dalrymple, B. M. Bobertson, N. A. Wales, L. J. 

 Butter worth, Donald Beid, J. L. Gillies, T. W. Kempthorne, Hugh McNeil, 

 W. D. Mears, J. O. Eva, J. C. Thomson, E. de Montalk. 



The chairman read a letter from his Honour the Superintendent, 

 forwarding a copy of a circular addressed to him by the Hon. the Colonial 

 Secretary, enquiring into the probability of such a collection of exhibits being 

 secured as would ensure a worthy representation of New Zealand at the 

 forthcoming exhibition at Philadelphia, in 1876. Before replying to the 

 circular he (his Honour) would be glad to be favoured with the views of the 



