First Meeting: 1st May, 1907.

The President, Dr. Hilgendorf, in the chair, and forty-six others present.

New Member.—T. H. Jackson.

On the motion of the President, resolutions of sympathy were carried with the families of the late Mr. R. Brown and Mr. T. W. Naylor-Beckett.

Dr. Chilton gave a résumé of the proceedings at the meeting of the New Zealand Institute in January.

Mr. R. Speight, the retiring President, gave an address on “Some Aspects of the Terrace-development in the Valleys of the Canterbury Rivers” (p. 16).