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  Proceedings. 
  

  

  Fourth 
  Meeting. 
  9^/t 
  Seiotemher, 
  1878, 
  

   T. 
  Heale, 
  President, 
  in 
  the 
  chair. 
  

   New 
  Members. 
  — 
  Eev. 
  S. 
  Edgar, 
  E, 
  A. 
  Plumley. 
  

  

  1. 
  Mr. 
  Robertson 
  made 
  a 
  lengthy 
  defence 
  of 
  his 
  paper, 
  "Education 
  as 
  a 
  Science," 
  

   read 
  at 
  the 
  last 
  two 
  meetings. 
  

  

  2. 
  Mr. 
  Heale 
  spoke 
  on 
  Mr. 
  Adams' 
  paper 
  on 
  Female 
  Education, 
  read 
  before 
  the 
  

   previous 
  meeting. 
  In 
  a 
  boy's 
  education, 
  the 
  training 
  should 
  be 
  almost 
  purely 
  intellectual. 
  

   It 
  is 
  likely 
  to 
  be 
  necessary 
  for 
  the 
  success 
  in 
  life 
  of 
  every 
  boy 
  that 
  he 
  should 
  be 
  quick 
  

   and 
  apt 
  at 
  figures, 
  that 
  he 
  should 
  speak 
  and 
  write 
  his 
  own 
  language 
  with 
  reasonable 
  

   facility 
  and 
  correctness 
  ; 
  and 
  if 
  his 
  education 
  is 
  to 
  be 
  carried 
  beyond 
  mere 
  rudiments 
  

   it 
  is 
  obviously 
  necessary 
  that 
  he 
  should 
  have 
  a 
  grounding 
  in 
  mathematics, 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  

   elements 
  of 
  literature, 
  which 
  is 
  necessarily 
  based 
  on 
  classics 
  ; 
  and 
  also, 
  some 
  initiation 
  

   into 
  the 
  elements 
  of 
  Physical 
  Science. 
  But 
  with 
  girls 
  this 
  sharp 
  limitation 
  of 
  school 
  

   teaching, 
  to 
  purely 
  intellectual 
  knowledge, 
  has 
  not 
  been 
  adopted. 
  It 
  has 
  apparently 
  been 
  

   felt 
  that- 
  the 
  development 
  of 
  a 
  moral 
  character, 
  and 
  the 
  cultivation 
  of 
  the 
  esthetic 
  

   faculties, 
  are 
  generally 
  of 
  more 
  importance 
  to 
  the 
  well-being 
  of 
  a 
  girl 
  than 
  the 
  hardening 
  

   and' 
  bracing 
  of 
  her 
  reasoning 
  powers 
  ; 
  that 
  elegance 
  of 
  language 
  and 
  demeanour, 
  a 
  nice 
  

   tact 
  in 
  the 
  avoidance 
  of 
  all 
  that 
  is 
  base 
  and 
  sordid, 
  a 
  quick 
  appreciation 
  of 
  and 
  relish 
  for 
  

   what 
  is 
  beautiful 
  — 
  in 
  short 
  " 
  accomplishments," 
  even 
  if 
  of 
  a 
  somewhat 
  flimsy 
  and 
  

   mechanical 
  character,^ 
  — 
  are 
  likely 
  to 
  be 
  more 
  appreciated 
  by 
  those 
  she 
  will 
  associate 
  

   with 
  in 
  her 
  career, 
  and 
  therefore 
  be 
  more 
  useful 
  to 
  her, 
  than 
  proficiency 
  in 
  classics 
  or 
  

   mathematics. 
  Nature 
  appears 
  to 
  have 
  clearly 
  assigned 
  to 
  the 
  sexes 
  distinctive 
  mental, 
  

   quite 
  as 
  much 
  as 
  physical 
  characteristics, 
  to 
  have 
  cast 
  the 
  intellectual 
  powers 
  of 
  men 
  

   and 
  women 
  not 
  in 
  the 
  same 
  mould, 
  but 
  rather 
  in 
  their 
  counterparts 
  ; 
  to 
  have 
  framed 
  

   each 
  with 
  qualities 
  imperfect 
  by 
  themselves, 
  and 
  only 
  capable 
  of 
  becoming 
  complete 
  by 
  

   being 
  supplemented 
  and 
  modified 
  by 
  the 
  opposite 
  ones 
  ; 
  and 
  it 
  follows 
  as 
  a 
  corollary 
  that 
  

   the 
  facu.lties 
  of 
  each 
  should 
  be 
  cultivated 
  so 
  as 
  to 
  supply 
  the 
  defects 
  of 
  the 
  other 
  — 
  the 
  

   one 
  perfected 
  in 
  his 
  hard 
  matter 
  of 
  fact, 
  logical 
  and 
  working 
  pursuits 
  — 
  the 
  other 
  in 
  the 
  

   elegancies 
  of 
  life 
  and 
  literature. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Adams 
  explained 
  that 
  he 
  would 
  by 
  no 
  means 
  banish 
  the 
  emotional 
  from 
  a 
  girl's 
  

   training, 
  but 
  simply 
  give 
  a 
  greater 
  amount 
  of 
  time 
  to 
  the 
  intellectual. 
  

  

  3. 
  " 
  The 
  New 
  Zealand 
  Anobiidce," 
  by 
  Captain 
  T. 
  Broun. 
  

  

  According 
  to 
  the 
  author, 
  this 
  group 
  possesses 
  ten 
  representatives 
  in 
  New' 
  Zealand, 
  

   nine 
  of 
  which 
  had 
  been 
  recently 
  discovered 
  by 
  himself. 
  

  

  4. 
  "Notes 
  on 
  a 
  Salt 
  Spring 
  near 
  Hokianga," 
  by 
  J. 
  A. 
  Pond. 
  {Trans- 
  

   actions, 
  p. 
  512.) 
  

  

  5. 
  Dr. 
  Purchas 
  then 
  proceeded 
  to 
  exhibit 
  a 
  number 
  of 
  Telephones 
  and 
  Microphones, 
  

   giving 
  a 
  full 
  account 
  of 
  their 
  construction 
  and 
  mode 
  of 
  action. 
  

  

  Fifth 
  Meeting. 
  7th 
  October, 
  1878. 
  

   T. 
  Heale, 
  President, 
  in 
  the 
  chair. 
  

   New 
  Member.- 
  — 
  D. 
  Hearn. 
  

  

  The 
  Secretary 
  read 
  the 
  list 
  of 
  donations 
  to 
  the 
  Library 
  and 
  Museum 
  since 
  the 
  last 
  

   meeting. 
  

  

  