Wellington Philosophical Society. 439 



I have no doubt, to the same individual bird as the metacarpal figured in 

 last year's volume (PI. 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 {Odax 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. Sc, F.L.S. (See Transactions, p. 279.) 



Fifteenth Meeting. 13th November, 1872. 

 Dr. Hector, F.E-.S., President in the chair. 



New member. — James Bull. 



1. '^ On the Life and Times of Te Kauparaha," (Chapter YII.) by W. T. 

 L. Travers, F.L.S. (See Transactions, p. 84.) 



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 Annual General Meeting. \st Februa/ry, 1873. 



James Hector, M.D., F.B.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 Yol. V. of the 

 Transactions. The Proceedings of the Society have been regularly published 



