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  Proceeding*. 
  

  

  3. 
  " 
  A 
  Description 
  of 
  two 
  New 
  Zealand 
  Ferns, 
  believed 
  to 
  be 
  new 
  to 
  

   Science 
  (.Cyathea 
  polyneuron, 
  and 
  Hymenophyllum 
  erecto-alatum)," 
  by 
  W. 
  

   Colenso, 
  F.L.S. 
  [Transactions, 
  p, 
  429.) 
  

  

  4. 
  Several 
  novel 
  and 
  curious 
  specimens, 
  both 
  Zoological 
  and 
  Botanical, 
  and 
  all 
  

   indigenous, 
  were 
  then 
  shown 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Colenso, 
  and 
  minutely 
  examined. 
  Among 
  them 
  

   were 
  (1) 
  the 
  peculiar 
  long 
  flat 
  aquatic 
  worms 
  [Gordius 
  aquaticus, 
  Gml.), 
  obtained 
  from 
  the 
  

   waters 
  of 
  the 
  " 
  Forty- 
  Mile 
  Bush," 
  which, 
  when 
  living, 
  were 
  very 
  elastic 
  ; 
  collected 
  by 
  Mr. 
  

   Thomson. 
  (2) 
  A 
  small 
  sea-fish, 
  C. 
  sprattus, 
  var. 
  antipodarum, 
  Hector, 
  ("Edible 
  Fishes 
  

   of 
  New 
  Zealand," 
  p. 
  133), 
  obtained 
  on 
  the 
  south 
  shore 
  of 
  Hawke 
  Bay, 
  at 
  a 
  time 
  when 
  they 
  

   were 
  observed 
  to 
  be 
  in 
  large 
  shoals 
  ; 
  collected 
  by 
  Mr. 
  W. 
  J. 
  Miller. 
  (3) 
  A 
  Marine 
  Spider, 
  

   from 
  the 
  Bay 
  of 
  Islands, 
  captured 
  by 
  the 
  exhibitor 
  (Mr. 
  Colenso) 
  in 
  1886, 
  in 
  deep 
  water, 
  

   and 
  believed 
  to 
  differ 
  from 
  the 
  one 
  recorded 
  at 
  p. 
  299, 
  Transactions, 
  Vol. 
  X. 
  

   (4) 
  Specimens 
  of 
  several 
  elegant 
  Ferns, 
  among 
  them 
  were 
  those 
  of 
  the 
  two 
  new 
  

   ones 
  {C.polyneuron 
  and 
  H. 
  erecto-alatum) 
  to 
  illustrate 
  the 
  paper 
  read. 
  

  

  Council 
  Meeting. 
  22}id 
  November. 
  

  

  The 
  Hod. 
  J. 
  D. 
  Ormond, 
  M.H.E., 
  President, 
  in 
  the 
  chair. 
  

  

  New 
  Members. 
  — 
  Miss 
  J. 
  Herbert, 
  Sir 
  Thomas 
  Tancred, 
  Bart., 
  Rev. 
  F. 
  E. 
  

   T. 
  Simcox, 
  E. 
  H. 
  Bold, 
  H. 
  Campbell, 
  W. 
  Heslop. 
  

  

  The 
  Hon. 
  W. 
  B. 
  D. 
  Mantell, 
  F.G.S., 
  of 
  Wellington, 
  was 
  chosen 
  to 
  vote 
  in 
  the 
  

   election 
  of 
  the 
  Board 
  of 
  Governors 
  for 
  the 
  ensuing 
  year, 
  in 
  accordance 
  with 
  clause 
  7 
  of 
  

   the 
  New 
  Zealand 
  Institute 
  Act. 
  

  

  The 
  nomination 
  for 
  the 
  elestion 
  of 
  an 
  honorary 
  member 
  of 
  the 
  New 
  Zealand 
  

   Institute 
  was 
  made 
  in 
  accordance 
  \\ 
  ith 
  Statute 
  IV. 
  

  

  