First Meeting: 1st May, 1907.
Professor H. B. Kirk, President, in the chair.

New Member.—Mr. Esmond Atkinson.

Sir Walter Buller, K.C.M.G.—The President announced that a letter had been received from Mr. A. P. Buller, expressing thanks, on behalf of himself and relatives, for the resolution of sympathy passed at the meeting of the Society on the 1st August, 1906, in regard to the death of the late Sir Walter Buller.

Papers.—1. “Seiches on Lakes,” by Martin Chapman

2. “A Surveying-camera,” by C. E. Adams, B.Sc.

Mr. Adams exhibited a specimen camera of the sort described, and explained the mode in which the apparatus was used by the land-surveyor and the map-maker.

3. “Recent Observations on New Zealand Macro-lepidoptera, including Descriptions of New Species,” by G. V. Hudson, F.E.S. (p. 104).

4. “Additional List of Mollusca: Minute Species found in Sand from Titahi Bay, New Zealand,” by T. Iredale, Christchurch; communicated by R. L. Mestayer, for Miss Mestayer.

The accompanying list contains a number of minute species of Mollusca which were found by T. Iredale in some Titahi Bay sand which I sent him. These were not included in the list published in the Transactions last year: Purpura scobina, var. albomarginata, Desh.; Trophon plebeius, Hutt (?), Jg.; Lutonna mauritiana, Lam.; Cominella lucida, Phil. (?), Jg.; Risellopsis varia, Hutt; Trochus traratus, Q. and G., Jg.; Mytilus canaliculus, Martyn; Modiolaria barbata, Reeve; Leiostraca murdochi, Hedley; Cæcum digitulum, Hedley; Rissoa incidata, Trauerfeld; Rissoa foveauxiana, Suter; Rissoa microstriata, Murdoch; Rissoina agrestis, Webster; Incisum lytteltonensis, E. A. Smith; Scissurella rosea, Hedley; Liotia polypleura, Hedley; Schismope brevis, Hedley; some minute bivalves not yet satisfactorily placed, perhaps Cura delta, Tate and May, and Thilobrya costata, Bernard.