HAWKE BAY PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTE. 



FiKST Meeting, ISth May, 1878. 



S. Locke in the chaii-. 



1. " A Memorandum of my First Journey to the Euahine Mountain 

 Eange, and of the Flora of that Eegion " (Part I.), by W. Colenso, F.L.S. 



Annual General Meeting, drd June, 1878. 



J. Gr. Kinross in the chair. 



New Members. — The Eight Eev. the Bishop of Waiapu, Dr. Wood, Dr. 

 De Lisle, Mr. W. J. Miller, Mr. J. W. Thomson. 



Election of Officees foe 1878-9 : — President — The Hon. J. D. Ormond, 

 M.H.E. ; Vice-president — The Eight Eev. the Bishop of Waiapu ; Council — 

 Messrs. Colenso, Kinross, Locke, Miller, Smith, Spencer, and Sturm ; 

 Hon. Secretary and Treasurer — W. Colenso ; Auditor — T. K. Newton. 



Resolved — That for the future the annual meeting shall be held in February instead 

 of June. 



ABSTEACl OF ANNUAL EEPOKT. 



During the past year three ordinary meetings have been held, at which five papers by 

 members were read. 



Of the sixty-nine members whose names were printed in our last year's report, one 

 has since died (our former esteemed vice-president, the late Bishop of Waiapu, Dr. 

 Wilhams, whose death the Council regrets to have to record) and five have removed from 

 Hawke Bay, leaving sixty, three on the roll. To these will have to be added the names of 

 five new members lately admitted, making a present total of sixty-eight. 



The books for the library, mentioned in last year's report, were duly sent out per 

 ' Queen Bee,' which ship, however, was totally lost in Cook Strait. Those books were 

 insured, and were re-ordered, and have subsequently been received here. An additional 

 lot, to the amount of £65, has also been selected and ordered by the Council. 



During the past year a few desirable objects and botanical specimens have been 

 collected by a few members for the Museum. 



The statement of accounts shows a balance of £120 15s. 5d. to the credit of the 

 Institute, besides the sum of £100 placed in the Bank of New Zealand as a fixed deposit. 



Second Meeting. 10;/i June, 1878. 

 The Eight Eev. the Bishop of Waiapu, Vice-president, in the chair. 

 1. " Notes on the Metamorphosis of one of our largest Moths, Basypodia 

 selenophora," by W. Colenso, F.L.S. (Transactions, p. 300.) 

 The reared moth was also shown. 



