﻿OTAGO INSTITUTE 



First Meeting. 21 si February^ 1871. 

 J. S. Webb, Yice-President, in tlie chair. 



New members. — Dr. Hammond, Johannes Graff, James Wilson. 



1. " Description of a Simple Contrivance for Economising the Current of 

 Large Rivers for Gold-sluicing, Town Supplies, and Mill-power," bj J. T. 

 Thomson, F.R.CS. (See Transactions, p. 141.) The author exhibited a 

 model of his proposed method, and explained the principles of its working. A 

 few days afterwards this model was tried at the Water of Leith in the presence 

 of several members of the Institute, and it worked satisfactorily. 



2. '' Notes on Captain Hutton's paper on Sinking Funds," by J. S. Webb 

 and K Wilding. (See Trans. N". Z. Inst., Vol II., p. 236, and Yol. III., p. 325.) 



3. " Notes on the Botany of Otago," by John Buchanan, of the New 

 Zealand Geological Survey, were then read by Mr. Webb. 



A piece of schist, with veins of quartz running throiigh it, from Tuapeka, 

 and two large lumps of antimony ore, estimated to contain over 70 per cent, of 

 metal, were laid on the table. 



Second Meeting, l^th April, 1871. 

 The Eev. D. M. Stuart, in the chair. 



New members. — Dr. Deck, W. H. Baker. 



1. " A Bock Pool and its Contents," by Peter Thomson. (See Transactions, 

 p. 219.) 



A conversational discussion took place, and it was agi-eed that it would be 

 better to allow the establishment of a Field Naturalists' Society to remain in 

 abeyance until the spring, Mr. Thomson promised to obtain rules of a 

 cognate Society, at Elie, Scotland, and other information on the subject. 



