﻿Auckland 
  Institute. 
  549 
  

  

  The 
  President 
  informed 
  the 
  meeting 
  that 
  advices 
  had 
  been 
  received 
  of 
  an 
  intended 
  

   presentation 
  to 
  the 
  Museum 
  of 
  an 
  extensive 
  series 
  of 
  casts 
  from 
  the 
  gems 
  of 
  antique 
  

   sculpture, 
  the 
  donor 
  being 
  Mr. 
  T. 
  Eussell, 
  C.M.G. 
  In 
  order 
  that 
  this 
  handsome 
  gift 
  may 
  

   be 
  rendered 
  fully 
  available, 
  their 
  townsman. 
  Dr. 
  Campbell, 
  had 
  liberally 
  arranged 
  to 
  

   defray 
  the 
  expenses 
  attendant 
  on 
  the 
  establishment 
  of 
  a 
  School 
  of 
  Design 
  within 
  the 
  

   Museum 
  Buildings. 
  Dr. 
  Campbell 
  had 
  also 
  taken 
  upon 
  himself 
  all 
  expenses 
  relative 
  to 
  

   the 
  placing 
  of 
  the 
  statuary 
  in 
  the 
  Museum. 
  

  

  A 
  vote 
  of 
  thanks 
  to 
  Mr. 
  Eussell 
  and 
  Dr. 
  Campbell 
  was 
  unanimously 
  agreed 
  to. 
  

  

  1. 
  " 
  The 
  Dascillidce 
  of 
  New 
  Zealand," 
  by 
  Captain 
  T. 
  Broun. 
  

  

  2. 
  "Notice 
  of 
  the 
  Occurrence 
  of 
  Juncus 
  tenuis, 
  Willd., 
  in 
  New 
  Zealand," 
  

   by 
  T. 
  F. 
  Clieeseman, 
  F.L.S. 
  (Transactions, 
  p. 
  433.) 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Heale 
  said 
  that 
  considering 
  that 
  the 
  plant 
  had 
  been 
  found 
  in 
  a 
  remote 
  portion 
  of 
  

   the 
  Northern 
  Wairoa, 
  a 
  district 
  which 
  had 
  no 
  foreign 
  trade 
  save 
  with 
  Australia, 
  of 
  which 
  

   Mr. 
  Cheeseman 
  informed 
  them 
  Juncus 
  tenuis 
  was 
  not 
  a 
  native, 
  he 
  should 
  certainly 
  be 
  in 
  

   favom' 
  of 
  considering 
  it 
  truly 
  indigenous. 
  

  

  3. 
  "Higli 
  Schools 
  for 
  Girls," 
  by 
  J. 
  Adams, 
  B.A. 
  

  

  In 
  this 
  paper 
  the 
  author 
  endeavoured 
  to 
  lay 
  down 
  certain 
  rules 
  that 
  should 
  be 
  

   adhered 
  to 
  in 
  the 
  establishment 
  of 
  girls' 
  schools, 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  adoption 
  of 
  the 
  curriculum 
  

   for 
  them. 
  

  

  Sixth 
  Meeting. 
  18th 
  November, 
  1878. 
  

   J. 
  Adams, 
  B.A., 
  in 
  the 
  chair. 
  

   New 
  Members. 
  — 
  W. 
  Berry, 
  J. 
  M. 
  Brigham, 
  H. 
  T, 
  Pycroft, 
  S. 
  J. 
  WiUiams. 
  

  

  1. 
  On 
  the 
  TeleplioridcB 
  of 
  New 
  Zealand," 
  by 
  Caj)tain 
  T. 
  Broun. 
  

  

  2. 
  " 
  Notice 
  of 
  the 
  Occurrence 
  of 
  the 
  Genus 
  Kyllinga 
  in 
  New 
  Zealand," 
  

   by 
  T. 
  F. 
  Cheeseman, 
  F.L.S. 
  {Transactions, 
  p. 
  434.) 
  

  

  3. 
  " 
  Note 
  on 
  Traditional 
  Changes 
  of 
  the 
  Coast-line 
  at 
  the 
  Manukau 
  

   Heads," 
  by 
  S. 
  Percy 
  Smith. 
  (Transactions, 
  p. 
  514.) 
  

  

  4. 
  " 
  Notes 
  on 
  the 
  Eising 
  Generation," 
  by 
  D. 
  C. 
  Wilson. 
  

  

  ABSTKACT. 
  

  

  The 
  author 
  remarks 
  on 
  the 
  small 
  number 
  of 
  Maori 
  children, 
  and 
  thinks 
  

   that 
  the 
  Maori 
  population 
  is 
  dying 
  out. 
  He 
  gives 
  a 
  short 
  description 
  of 
  

   their 
  former 
  mode 
  of 
  life, 
  which 
  he 
  considers 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  better 
  adapted 
  to 
  

   prolong 
  life 
  than 
  their 
  present 
  semi-European 
  habits. 
  He 
  thinks 
  the 
  only 
  

   chance 
  of 
  preserving 
  the 
  Maori 
  race 
  is 
  intermarriage 
  with 
  Europeans 
  ; 
  and 
  

   cites 
  as 
  a 
  remarkable 
  fact 
  that 
  when 
  half-castes 
  and 
  Maoris 
  intermarry, 
  

   their 
  offspring 
  are 
  numerous, 
  and 
  that 
  even 
  the 
  smallest 
  trace 
  of 
  European 
  

   blood 
  seems 
  to 
  have 
  a 
  good 
  effect 
  on 
  the 
  stamina 
  of 
  the 
  children. 
  

  

  With 
  regard 
  to 
  white 
  children, 
  he 
  considers 
  that 
  the 
  climate 
  is 
  in 
  then- 
  

   favour, 
  and 
  that 
  they 
  will 
  be 
  perhaps 
  an 
  improvement 
  on 
  their 
  fathers. 
  He 
  

   thinks 
  that 
  emigrants 
  to 
  the 
  colony 
  live 
  longer 
  than 
  if 
  they 
  remained 
  at 
  

   home, 
  and 
  cites 
  as 
  an 
  instance 
  a 
  community 
  of 
  Highland 
  birth 
  and 
  descent, 
  

  

  