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1. "On the Decline of the Hawaiian Eace and the peculiar Forms of Disease prevalent among them," by Dr. Hutchinson.

New Member.—G. V. Shannon.

New Member.—T. Turnbull.

1. The society nominated for election an honorary member of the New Zealand Institute.

2. "Remarks upon the Distribution within the New Zealand Zoological Sub-region of the Birds of the Orders Accipitres, Paessres, Scansores, Columbæ, Gallinæ, Struthiones, and Grallle," by W. T. L. Travers. (Transactions, p. 178.)

3. "Remarks on some Bones lately discovered by Mr. H. T. Wharton in Oaves at Highfield, Canterbury," by Dr. Hector.

4. "On a new Mineral belonging to the Serpentine Group," by S. H. Cox, F.C.S., F.G.S. (Transactions, p 409.)

5. "On the Non-metallic Minerals of New Zealand," by S. H. Cox. (Transactions, p. 361.)

This is a continuation of the paper read and published last year on the metallic minerals by the same author.

6. Dr. Hector exhibited some views of the comet and a diagram of its orbit, and by the aid of a model gave a most lucid and interesting explanation of the phases through which it has passed since the 7th September, when it was first observed. He mentioned, as a