HAWKE'S BAY PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTE. 



Annual General Meeting. 2nd February, 1880. 



Dr. Spencer, Vice-president, in the cliaii'. 



Election of Officers for 1880 : — President — The Eight Eev. the Bishop 

 of Waiapu ; Vice-jn-esident — Dr. Spencer ; Ho7i. Secretary and Treasurer — W. 

 Colenso ; Council — Messrs. Baker, Bold, Colenso, Holder, Kinross, M. E. 

 Miller, Sturm ; Auditor — T. K. Newton. 



ABSTRACT OF ANNUAL REPORT. 



During the past winter session six ordinary meetings were held, at which seven 

 papers prepared by members were read. 



The number of members is 78, being an increase of four on the previous year. 



Throughout the year several Zoological, Botanical, and Geological specimens have 

 been collected by the members of the Institute for the Museum. 



Books for the Library to the amount of £40 have been ordered from England, and 

 £21 has also been paid for Scientific works obtained in New Zealand ; a further sum of 

 £10 has also been remitted to the Manager of the New Zealand Institute, towards 

 defraying the expenses of publishing Vol. XI. of " Transactions of New Zealand 

 Institute." 



The audited statement of accounts shows a balance of £193 2s. Id. remaining to the 

 credit of the Society. 



First Ordinary Meeting. 4:th June, 1880. 

 Dr. Spencer, Vice-president, in the chair. 



Dr. Spencer, with the help of his large compound microscope, exhibited several 

 curious and interesting specimens of Diatoms, obtained from the ocean-bed of the 

 Atlantic, the West-India Islands, etc. ; also some minute microscopic fresh-water Algce, 

 from Napier and its neighbourhood ; illustrating the whole with descriptions and explana- 

 tory remarks. 



The Hon. Secretary showed several specimens of gold ores, and of auriferous quartz 

 and other gold-bearing rocks, frona various parts of New Zealand and from Australia. 



Second Ordinary Meeting. 12,th July, 1880. 



The Eight Eev. the Bishop of Waiapu, President, in the chair. 



1. " On certain Historical incidents of the Ancient East Coast Maoris ; 

 showing much of their peculiar manner of living and ways of thinking in 

 the olden time, — long before they were visited by Europeans," by W. 

 Colenso, F.L.S. f Tramactions, p. 38.) 



