Second Meeting: 4th July, 1912.
Professor H. W. Segar, President, in the chair.

New Members.—R. H. Abbott, — Armitage, P. S. Ardern, Miss Butler, E. Brooke-Smith, Rev. R. H. Cole, S. Cory-Wright, J. Dempsey, J. C. Dove, J. Fleming, A. M. Gould, M. D. Gray, Trevor Lloyd, Rev. G. MacMurray, B. C. Moody, W. H. Pountney, Dr. A. H. Porter, F. C. Rollett, F. Shaw, Rev. J. H. Simmonds, Hall Skelton, Rev. P. S. Smallfield, Wesley Spragg, J. F. Stewart, H. L. Wade, Professor Maxwell Walker, Rev. C. A. B. Watson, A. Wiseman, Martin Wilson, A. C. Woolcott.

Sir John Logan Campbell.—The President called the attention of the meeting to the recent death of Sir John Logan Campbell, and the announcement that had been made to the effect that the Auckland Institute and Museum would receive a bequest of £1,000 under his will. He moved the following resolution:—

The Auckland Institute and Museum is desirous of recording at the earliest possible opportunity its sincere and profound regret at the death of Sir John Logan Campbell, a member of the Institute since 1872, for several years one of its Council, and during the whole of his membership a liberal and consistent supporter of the aims and interests of the Society. The Institute is proud to have numbered among its members one who assisted in the foundation of this city and the establishment of its institutions, who during his lifetime contributed an unexampled series of varied and far-reaching benefactions, and who at his death has provided for so many large and important bequests, for one of which the sorrowful acknowledgments of the Institute are due. The Institute also desires to express to Lady Campbell its sincere and respectful condolence, and to assure her of its deep sympathy in her affliction.

The motion was seconded by the Vice-President (Mr. J. H. Upton), and was carried unanimously.

Lecture.—“A Gentleman of Athens,” by Professor H. S. Dettmann, M.A.

The main object of the lecture was to show that there was much in the daily life of ancient Athens that came curiously close, even in points of detail, to our own. It is possible to find parallels for many of our modern customs and even for many of our modern jests.