that they were picked specimens of the race. He considered 
the race as much wanting new blood and vital force, having, 
however, great individuality and powers of application. 
Their courage was greater than that of any warriors not 
trained in the European manner. In conclusion, he urged 
the necessity of a resolute policy, and only wished that their 
councils were directed by such men as the chiefs of whom 
he had spoken. 
Mr. W. Sanders, in presenting the thanks of the society 
to Mr. Groome, observed that though such observations 
were hardly consistent with the pure inductive spirit which 
should guide true science, still they were very interesting. 
Both these papers were illustrated by the heads of New 
Zealanders in the museum of the institution, and by draw- 
ings of the seven chiefs by Dr. Swayne, who, having also 
been in New Zealand, offered a few remarks at the close, 
relative to the causes of the ill-feeling between the Maories 
and the settlers. He considered them to be deep-seated, and to 
have reference especially to the land, as the Maori naturally 
objected to part with land which had long been held by his 
ancestors. 
The last paper was by Mr, Frederick Martin, on the 
marine zoology of Clevedon. The author stated that his ob- 
ject was simply to enumerate and describe those species of 
marine animals which he had himself met with, as they were 
more numerous than he at first supposed. Ascending in the 
scale of animal life, he commenced with the hydroid polypes 
— having found two species of sertularia plentifully in the 
rock pools. Of the actiniae, or sea anemones, two species 
occurred: A. mesembryanthemum, like small lumps of red or 
green jelly, which would readily multiply in confinement, 
and A. crasncornis, which was very voracious, even eating 
crabs of its own size, varied very much in colour, and was 
difficult to keep in confinement. Of echinodermata the only 
species the author had found was the red twelve-armed star- 
fish, solaster papposa, which lived on the rocks on the shore 
near Ladies' Bay. This starfish had long been known to 
feed on the inhabitants of bivalve shells, and recent dis- 
coveries had shown that it got them out by injecting drops 
of poisonous liquid between the valves of the shell. Of the 
annelids, or worms, two species occurred : pectinaria, which 
protected its body with fragments of shell, and nereis, a free 
swimming animal, whose body was composed of consecutive 
similar rings. It had a most formidable mouth, and.fastened 
on fish, often killing them. Many species of Crustacea in- 
habited the neighbourhood ; the prawn being rare, but the 
shrimp abounding ; the small sandhoppers and spider-like 
crabs were frequent, as also the green shor« crab, and the 
hermit crab, which had a soft body, and therefore inhabited 
empty univalve shells. They were very pugnacious, and 
would live well in an aquarium. 01 the cirr hi pedes, two 
species of sessile barnacles occurred;, and of the mollusca, 
two bivalves and nine univalves. 
Mr. Martin illustrated his paper in the most complete 
manner by specimens of the animals, many of which were 
alive and apparently healthy, and others preserved in the 
most life-like manner. 
Mr. W. Sanders observed that the lateness of the hour 
prevented a discussion on this most interesting paper, but 
he could not help characterizing it as the good work of a 
good naturalist, and as containing the kind of information 
which it aught to be the special object of the society to 
elicit. 
After spending a considerable time in the examination of 
Mr. Martin's specimens, the meeting separated. 
WM. LANT CARPENTER, 
Honorary Reporting Secretary. 
