188 JOURNAL OF SCIENCE. 
Mr. C. Chilton proposed the following resolution, which, after 
some discussion, was agreed to—‘‘ That this Society desires to 
place on record its high appreciation of the great services that 
have been rendered to science by the late Mr. Charles Darwin, 
and its deep sense of the loss that science has sustained through 
his death.” 
Mr. W. M. Maskell, whose views on the development theory 
are wholly opposed to those of the world-renowned and lately 
deceased naturalist, could not agree with the resolution, though 
he fully appreciated the labours of Dr. Darwin outside of his theory. 
ist June.—W. M. Maskell, Esq., in the chair. 
Several donations of books were laid on the table. 
Papers—(1.) ‘On the New Zealand Siphonariide,” by Prof. 
F. W. Hutton, This paper described the shell and animal of all 
the species of Siphonaria and Gadinia known to inhabit New 
Zealand. Figures are given of the dentition, reproductive and 
alimentary systems, and of the jaws. The following species are 
recognised :— 
Siphonaria obliquata, Sowerby.—From Dunedin to Wellington ; 
and at the Chatham Islands. 
Siphonaria australis, Quoy and Gaimard.—From Dunedin to 
Cook Straits. 
Siphonaria zealandica, Quoy and Gaimard.—From Auckland to 
Banks’ Peninsula. | 
Siphonaria redimiculum, Reeve.—Auckland Islands. 
Gadinia nivea, Hutton.—East coast of Otago. 
HAWKE'S. BAY PHILOSOPHICAL ‘INSTR 
8th May, 1882.—The first ordinary meeting of the Session was 
he!d ; Dr. Spencer, vice-president, in the chair. 
The only paper read was one by the Hon. Secretary, Mr. 
Colenso, ‘‘On the large number of species and genera of ferns 
found in a small given area in the 70-mile Bush.” Several interest- 
ing specimens illustrative of the paper were exhibited. 
The Hon. Secretary also gave a brief address to the memory 
of Dr Darwin, an early hon. member of the N.Z. Institute, whose 
acquaintance Mr Colenso had made in 1835, when Dr Darwin and 
Admiral Fitzroy were together in New Zealand, in H.M.S. 
“Beagle,” 
A number of entomological exhibits, including the larve of a 
species of Myrmeleon (Ant-lion) believed to be new to science, were 
also made by Mr Colenso, 
t2th June.—Dr. Spencer, Vice-president, in the chair. 
Papers—(1)‘‘ Descriptions of New Ferns belonging tothe genera 
Cyathea, Dicksonia and Hymenophyllum, collected in the 70-mile Bush,” 
and 
(2) “On the hackneyed quotation of Macauley’s ‘ New — 
Zealander’ ”’; both by W. Colenso, Esq., F.L.S., the Hon. Secretary. 
The previous paper was accompanied by specimens and illus- — 
trations of allied ferns. In the second paper the author pointed 
out that the simile was by no means an uncommon one, and as 
something very like it had been used by several authors who had 
