PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY
ANNUAL MEETING. • The forty-ninth annual/meeting of iho AYellington Philosophical Society ivas held in the Dominion Museum last evening. The president (Dr. Hector) occupied tho chair. There was a fair attendance of members. Tho annual report of the society, which gave a resume of the society's activities during the year, was read by the secretary (Mr. C. \V, Adams). •
Mr. C. G. G. : Berry read the annual report of the astronomical section of the society. Mention was made of a gift to the section by Miss King of ii good >6-inch astronomical telescope, which ■was presented to the society in memory of tho late Mr. Thomas King, a former president of tho Philosophical Society. •It was proposod to set tbo telescope up in a separate building, of its own (tho design of which had been prepared by ■Mr. AV. S. La Trobe), oil a site adjoining the present observatory at Kel'.burn. 'Hie new building, which would be a very handsome structure, would be knoiyn as the King Memorial Observatory. \
Mr. S. Jenkinson read the' annual report of the technological, and Dr. J. 'A. Thomson the geological, seotions of tho society. The reports were adopted. Tho election of officers resulted as follows:—President, Mr. George Hogben; vicc-presidonts, Dr. 0. M. Hector and Mr. ](. AV. Holmos; council, Messrs. iAV. S. La Trobe (chairman astronomical section), F. AV. Furkort (chairman technological section), Dr. C; A. Cotton (chairman geological section), Dr. J. A. Thomson, Mr. E: Parry, Professors Eastorfiold, H. U. Kirk, and Somervillo; secretary, Mr. C. AV. Adams; treasurer, Mr. A. C. Gilford. Mr. H. Hamilton gave a briof address on tho crab-eating seal, an Antarctic seal, usually found on pack and 1100 ico, amL.known. to bo found as far north as A r ictoria, one having been found on tho coast noar Melbourne. A particular seal, of which ho exhibited tho skull lvas found sonio six months ago on the Petono bench in an omaciated condition. Tho seal was placed in the Zen at Newtown, but it never thrived, and ultimately it died. Mr. Hamilton could not say tfow tho seal got so far out of its natural latitude, for it could Hot have floated farther north than Macquarie Island on ice. Ono member ■wished to know how the seal could ho crali-cating, wlion it lived on ico. Mr. Hamilton said the name was a misnomer, as tbo seal really lived on fusoria, though its dentition indicated that it'ate rougher fare at times.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2912, 26 October 1916, Page 7
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411PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2912, 26 October 1916, Page 7
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