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Age (from 

 Nursery 

 Stock.) 



Names . 



Height. 



Spread 



of 



Branches. 



Trunk 



at 

 Base. 







ft. 



in. 



ft. in. 



ft. in. 



3 



Biotia aurea 



3 



6 



3 6 



1 8 



3 



Cedrus deodara 



8 







7 



11 



3 



„ atlantica 



6 







6 



81 



3 



Araucaria imbricata 



4 



H 



4 



6 



3 



„ bidwellii 



4 



6 



5 6 



6 



3 



Wellingtonia gigantea 



12 



8 



8 



2 7 



5 



,, do. (last year's growth) 

 Taxus Ibaccata 



6 



8 



8 

 4 



8 



81 



1 6 



3 



Quercus ilex 



14 



6 



8 



1 2 



5 



„ I'obur (from seed) 



17 



6 



10 



1 5 



4 



Magnolia grancliflora 



12 







12 



1 



5 



Betiila alba (from seed) 



20 







16 



2 



3 



Arbutus 



12 



4 



10 



1 111 



3 



4 



Laurestinus (Hedge) 

 Laurus nobilis 



8 

 12 





 



6 (base 

 6 



of hedge) 

 1 10 



3 



Taxodium sempei'virens ... 



9 







9 10 



1 1 



3 



Fraxinus excelsior (from seed) 



10 



3 



— 



7 



3 



Abies excelsior 



8 



4 



— 



11 



3 



Cratcegus crus galli 



9 







6 



— 



3 



Oxy cedrus j unij)eris 



6 







8 



1 



The above measurements were taken by me personally, and I consider 

 them, in the main, correct. — Francis Williamson, Proprietor. 



I was present when the above measurements were taken, and I consider 

 that they are generally correct. — Henry T. Pycroft, 



4. Captain Hutton exhibited a specimen of the Southern Mutton Bird, or 

 Titi of the nativ^es, which he had discovered to be Puffinus amaurosma. He 

 stated that, though common, this bird had never been previously mentioned in 

 scientific lists as occurring in New Zealand. 



Fourth Meeting. 26th August, 1871. 

 W. T. L. Travers, F.L.S., President, in the chair. 



lifew member — A. T. Bothamley. 



1. " On the Bats of New Zealand," by Captain F. W. Hutton, F.G.S. 

 (See Transactions, p. 184.) 



Dr. Hector mentioned finding large numbers of the Long-eared Bat last 

 summer when loosing the sails of H.M.S. 'Clio' in Milford Sound. The 

 mistake of Dr. J. E. Gray, which Captain Hutton had referred to, in sup- 

 posing that Forster had named the Long-eared Bat Vespei'tilio tuherculatus, 



