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Abstract of Annual Report 425
Election of Officers for 1900 425
Explorations in Te Anau District. By A. C. Gifford 425–426
Notes on Virginian Quail imported by the Acclimatisation Society. By Sir J. Hector 426–427
On Cobweb-covered Head gear from New Hebrides. By E. Tregear 427
On a Chatham Island Ownership Log 427
On Centipedes collected from Bananas 427
On New Zealand Freshwater Crayfish 427
Presentation to the Museum of Relics of the First New Zealand Press 428
AUCKLAND INSTITUTE.
On Capital and Modern Progress. By J. Batger 429
On the Electric Spark. By Professor F. D. Brown 429
On Water supply and Disease-germs. By Dr. R. H. Makgill 429
On Ruapehu and its Neighbourhood. By P. Marshall, F.G.S 429
On the Coming Star Showers. By Professor H. W. Segar 430
On "The Novel." By Professor C. W. Egerton 430
Some Experiments in Radiant Heat. By E. V. Miller 430
On Rarotonga: its Scenery, Vegetation, and Native Inhabitants. By T. F. Cheeseman, F.L.S. 430
Abstract of Annual Report 431–432
Election of Officers for 1900 432
PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTE OF CANTERBURY.
On the Life-history of Words. By Professor Arnold Wall 433
Description of a Trephined Maori Skull. By Captain Hutton, F.R.S. 433
On Wireless Telegraphy. By J. S. S. Cooper 433
Exhibit of Flowers of Garrya elliptica, by R. Nairn 434
Resolution regarding Death of Mr. R. W. Fereday 434
On Damage to Forest Trees by the Drought of 1897–98. By T. W. Adams 434
On some Recent Developments in Mechanical Engineering. By J. L. Scott 434
On a New Form of Ether Saturator. By Dr. Evans 434
Exhibit of Clematis attacked by Fungus, by Professor Dendy 435
Abstract of Annual Report 435
Election of Officers for 1900 436
On some Little-known Country in the Waimakariri District. By L. Cockayne 436
Exhibit of Flowering Anigozanthus from Swan River, by R. Nairn 436
On the Formation of Starch by Green Plants in Sunlight. By Professor Dendy 436
On Peripatus viridimaculatus, n.s. By Professor Dendy 436
OTAGO INSTITUTE.
List of Exhibits 437
Notornis exhibited, by Professor Benham 437
On the Ultimate Vital Unit. By Professor Benham 437
Notice of Death of Mr. A. E. Purdie 438
Notice of Discovery of Complete Moa Egg. By F. R. Chapman 438