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Ninth Meeting. October 5, 1870. 

 Dr. Haast, F.R.S., President, in the chair. 



Tlie following new members were elected : — A. Lean and Lancelot 

 Walker. 



The Secretary laid on the table several donations of books, which 

 were acknowledged with thanks. 



It was agreed that the Committees on Lectureships and Grasses be 

 requested to present their Reports at next meeting. 



L " On a New Species of Ajiteryx^'' by Julius Haast, Ph.D., F.R.S. 

 (See Transactions.) 



2. " On the Changes in the Nomenclature of the New Zealand 

 Ferns," by J. D. Enys. (See Transactio7is.) 



Annual General Meeting. November 2, 1870. 



Dr. Haast, F.R.S., President, in the chair. 



The Annual Report was read by the Secretary, of which the 

 following is an Abstract : — 



The Report which the Council now submits to the members of the 

 Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, applies to a period of eighteen 

 months. This extension of time is owing to the change which was 

 effected last year in the date at which the oiEcial year of the Society's 

 proceedings should commence. That date is now fixed for the 1st 

 January of each year. Dviring these eighteen months twenty-five new 

 member's have joined the Society. Fifty Pounds sterling have been 

 remitted to London for the purchase of books, and £40 for a microscope 

 for the use of the Society. There is at present a balance in hand of 

 £29 4s. 4d. The sum of £79 16s. 2d. has been paid by the Treasurer 

 to the Director of the Museum. Some steps have been taken with a 

 view to secure the establishment of Lectureships in connection with the 

 Museum, as will be seen from the Report of the Committee appointed to 

 confer with the Provincial Government on that matter. The Council is 

 strongly of opinion that, in order to render the Museum directly and 

 actively useful to the community, the Directorship should be made a 

 permanent appointment, and should be combined with a Lectureship on 

 Natural History. The addition of other Lectureships ought gradually 

 to follow, until a complete scientific coui'se be provided. The Report of 



