Report of the Meetings of the Society 
(January — June 1884). 
Meeting held ioth January. — The Honourable B. 
Howell Jones, President, in the chair. 
Elections. — Members : M. B. Jamieson; W. B. Winter ; 
F. Abraham ; A. Duncan ; G. Pearce ; Rev. G. 
Salmon. 
Associates : A. Lennox ; J. Macfarlane : W. 
Macdonald ; A. W. Ord ; G. R. Proudlock. 
The Proposed Forestry Exhibition. — The President 
stated that the Government had addressed a letter to the 
Society asking the Society if they would undertake to 
organise an expedition in connection with the Forestry 
Exhibition to be held this year in Edinburgh. The Com- 
mittee had decided to undertake it with the assistance of 
the Government, and the Committee referred the matter 
to the Committee of Correspondence, as was usually 
done in such cases. There had been no answer given to 
the Government, relative to a question in their letter, as 
to who should represent the colony at the Exhibition ; 
but at next meeting he should propose that if the hon. 
Wm. Russell, President of the Committee of Correspon- 
dence, went home, he be requested to represent the 
colony at the Exhibition. 
Cane Crushing and Megass as Fuel. — The President 
said that a paper was to have been read at the last gene- 
ral meeting by Mr. Russell, and it was postponed in 
order that printed copies of the paper might be placed 
