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  Institute. 
  557 
  

  

  Fifth 
  Meeting. 
  2th 
  July, 
  1878. 
  

  

  W. 
  N. 
  Blair, 
  President, 
  in 
  tlie 
  chair. 
  

  

  Neiv 
  Members. 
  — 
  Dr. 
  Ferguson, 
  F. 
  JeJEfcoat, 
  junr., 
  J. 
  Morrison, 
  E. 
  

   Sparrow, 
  J. 
  Cormack. 
  

  

  1. 
  " 
  On 
  the 
  Brown 
  Trout 
  introduced 
  into 
  Otago," 
  by 
  W. 
  Arthur, 
  C.E., 
  

   (Transactions, 
  p. 
  271.) 
  

  

  Sixth 
  Meeting. 
  15tJi 
  July, 
  1878. 
  

  

  W. 
  N. 
  Blair, 
  President, 
  in 
  the 
  chair. 
  

  

  The 
  Hon. 
  Kobert 
  Stout, 
  Attorney-General, 
  gave 
  a 
  lectui-e 
  entitled 
  " 
  A 
  

   Plea 
  for 
  the 
  Study 
  of 
  Politics." 
  

  

  Seventh 
  Meeting. 
  13th 
  August, 
  1878. 
  

   Prof. 
  Hutton, 
  Vice-president, 
  in 
  the 
  chair. 
  

   New 
  Members. 
  — 
  E. 
  H. 
  Leary, 
  Wm. 
  Taylor, 
  J. 
  Forsyth, 
  Jas. 
  Arkle. 
  

  

  1. 
  " 
  Our 
  Fish 
  Supply," 
  by 
  P. 
  Thomson. 
  [Transactions, 
  p. 
  380.) 
  

  

  2. 
  " 
  A 
  Description 
  of 
  inexpensive 
  Apparatus 
  for 
  measuring 
  the 
  Angles 
  

   of 
  Position 
  and 
  Distances 
  of 
  Double 
  Stars, 
  and 
  the 
  Method 
  of 
  using 
  it," 
  by 
  

   James 
  H. 
  Pope. 
  [Transactions, 
  p. 
  141.) 
  

  

  3. 
  " 
  New 
  Zealand 
  Crustacea, 
  with 
  Descriptions 
  of 
  new 
  SiDecies," 
  by 
  

   George 
  M. 
  Thomson. 
  [Transactions, 
  p. 
  280.) 
  

  

  4. 
  " 
  Descriptions 
  of 
  two 
  new 
  Crabs," 
  by 
  Prof, 
  Hutton. 
  

  

  6. 
  " 
  Notes 
  on 
  the 
  New 
  Zealand 
  SheUs 
  in 
  the 
  'Voyage 
  au 
  Pole 
  Sud', 
  " 
  

   by 
  Prof. 
  Hutton. 
  

  

  Eighth 
  Meeting. 
  10/7i 
  September, 
  1878. 
  

   W. 
  Arthur, 
  Vice-president, 
  in 
  the 
  chair. 
  

   New 
  Members. 
  — 
  E. 
  Peattie, 
  A. 
  Herdman. 
  

  

  Prof. 
  Hutton 
  exhibited 
  two 
  eggs 
  of 
  the 
  Nelly 
  or 
  Stink-pot 
  (Ossifraga 
  gigantea) 
  from 
  

   Macquarie 
  Islands, 
  -which 
  had 
  been 
  presented 
  to 
  the 
  Museum 
  by 
  Mr. 
  John 
  Cormack. 
  

  

  1. 
  " 
  On 
  a 
  new 
  Species 
  of 
  Millepora 
  [M. 
  undulosa), 
  from 
  Foveaux 
  

   Strait," 
  by 
  the 
  Eev. 
  J. 
  E. 
  Tenison-Woods, 
  of 
  Sydney; 
  communicated 
  by 
  

   Prof. 
  Hutton. 
  [Transactions, 
  p. 
  345.) 
  

  

  2. 
  " 
  Notes 
  on 
  a 
  Collection 
  from 
  the 
  Auckland 
  Islands 
  and 
  Campbell 
  

   Island," 
  by 
  Prof. 
  Hutton. 
  [Transactions, 
  p. 
  337.) 
  

  

  3. 
  " 
  On 
  Phalacrocorax 
  carunculatus, 
  Gmelin," 
  by 
  Prof. 
  Hutton. 
  [Trans- 
  

   actions, 
  p. 
  332.) 
  

  

  