WELLINGTON PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



Third Annual General Meeting. January 29, 1870. 

 J. C. Crawford, F.G.S., Vice President, in the cliair. 



ABSTRACT REPORT OF THE COUNCIL FOR THE ANNUAL MEETING. 



The Society consists of 85 members ; a considerable number of those 

 formerly belonging to it having joined other local Societies aifiliated to 

 the Institute. 



The subscriptions received for the year amount to £72 9s. 



The expenditure has been £33 16s. lid., the largest item being the 

 proportional contribution to the Institute. 



The balance in the hands of the Treasurer, as shown by the accom- 

 panying accounts, is £87 Os. lid. 



There have been six meetings of the Society, the papers read at which 

 ■will appear in Vol. II. of the Transactions of the Institute, which is 

 now in the press. 



Seven meetings of the Council have been held during the year. 



Robert Pharazyn, Hon. Seo. 



Election of Officers for 1870 : President — Hon. W. B. D. Man- 

 tell, F.G.S. ; Vice Fresidents — J. C. Crawford, F.G.S, R. Pharazyn, 

 F.KG.S. ; Council— W. T. L. Travers, F.L.S., J. Hector, M.D., F.R.S., 

 J. Kebbell, W. Lyon, F.G.S., W. Buller, F.L.S; Hon. Secretary and 

 Treasurer, pro tern., R. Pharazyn. 



A list of donations to the Libraiy was read. 



1. A valuable collection of Specimens of Plants from the Fiji Islands 

 was exhibited by Mr. R. L. Holmes, and the results of a few months 

 residence there described. 



2, Dr. Knox then gave a description of a specimen of Bernardius 

 Arnuxii, which had been recently captured in the harbour, and the most 

 important parts of the skeleton of which he had secured for the Museum. 

 The animal was evidently full gi'own, and measured 33 feet, and what 

 he desired to draw special attention to was the fact that while it pre- 



