PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 631, 7 October 1909, Page 4

PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.

'• :. : \- ; -ankuax, meeting■'■■ ■ A-- Hamilton'.'preV v r ?''Report stated' that 'a no tideablt. hid; boon. the larger atduo probablyfto the .to the general publics.', The 'j f ■ n " ; -Mays, with•,an 'inaugural for..Scientific-. Research in Now ; Zealand.. «,In all if papers .had-tarn read arid • exhibits had been laid . ori v tliotable. Iho-Bs!\rd of.'Governors of- lhn nomination of tlio .society, .had. .stated-! Sir' GeOrgo.' Howard honorary member of tho The-, Survoj,or-General (Mr T by, ? \ to..iet\up- permanent bench-marks at each , place, in tho .colony at which tido gaugosj-ero in use.. Thesaiarks should ™?o y? ,ue ., to.'..Hudcnts of earth;- mote--report; also , relh i VrnncnStil s gc ?. form in'. wKielj . --transactions and Proceedings" are issnedr Since, tlio last onniial meeting 21 now had been elected, and the total num. unr- on tho roll was now 116 (inclusive.-of fouif one honorary-member). The mounts showed , a , credit balance of Jt39 9 S : -j-' ip. addition to t the research fund, on fixed deposit, at, tho.-bank, amounting to £46 9s.'3d. Ji r V Ju s e S? tl; ex P>">ed to ;the council that bo found with great-regret ;that increasing calls upon his time rendered it impracticable for ■niir.. to; contmue to act as secretary'and trca< •W5' a fl4:.h« .tt«WojeVaSk«d\to,:.be' relieved• olotiico at. the end of tho year-■ - report; and .balance-sheet'' were adopted.President expressed tho: thanks of tho ; secretary,; and stated tnnt the 1 council "bad 'authorised a minute oxi .pressiDg-its-eonso of the great-valuo of his services, and had also appointed him an honorary life member. . r 1 The'following-were blected as officers for the ensuing.-. year:—President, Mr. .'A. -Hamilton'' T}9Srpresidont<i,-Mr.; Thomas King and' Dr c' Monro .Hector; .-council, Professors T- H- EastoficUl and H. 1t..; Kirk, Messrs. T. W. Kirk, Martin. Chapman, K.C., B. D, Bell, G V Hud! son,.:and 1.: G. A. Stuckey; secretary, arid tieasuror, .Mr.cC.; E...Adams;, auditor, ■ Mr. E. R Dymock ' papers were'submitted:—*''PreVoting and-tte - Counting of- Votes,". < r ' ?>' On Uongi's Armour," by I:l A' on a Small nthnological:CoUecbon from the Solomon Islands/* y.'^Hamilton* (from.; notes' supplied by Rev. W. . G^lyens);. "Notes on Lepidoptera Col•'iSKA o< ?P' r? d T§ou;tMand m the .Season , 1908-9, ; by •.Mr.-.-H; r '-Hamiltoii i and 'Mr. E. S. Oliver; ~ A'.Review ..of'-the:,Present Position of th'j.-Pnlaeontology of Jsew Zealand," by Mr. A Hamilton ~^ie- '.that; the-: joint library -scheme, was.-'still, under consideration r and .negotiations, tended to the evolution of-a. ; . uscf ?' fchnme.. .The suggestion to erect a ; shel- • Mr-shed .on -tho ..-Tararuas, had not. been lost sight of, and Mr. '■ Aston and Mr. PliiUips-Tur-.linf ..had ,made several trips -to select a site /Pt-rmission 'had;.bfeen obtained to, erect a. sheltery'and. the 'institute'would 1 , probably - 'coiitiibuto to the cost. ■ V'•: , . .. . :V 'j'JSpeciraerits': Of: 'of the -pukatea ' wore exhibited :by Mr; B. C. Aston, and a piVs !jftw;\jlth; an abiiorma)i.growth of tusks, bv the president. , •