Julius Haast, Ph.D., F.R.S. President, in the chair.

Presentations of books were laid on the table.

1. Dr. Haast read a communication on the latest results of Deep Sea Dredging in the Atlantic and Mediterranean, undertaken by Professor Carpenter and Professor Gwynn Jeffreys.

2. “Observations on a Paper read by Mr. A. Bathgate before the Otago Institute, 11th January, 1870,^* ‘On the Lepidoptera of Otago,’ by R. W. Fereday, Corresponding Member of the Entomological Society of London. (See Transactions, p. 214.)