PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 99, 23 October 1913, Page 4

PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

ANNUAL MEETING. The annual meeting of the Wellington Philosophical Society was held last night. Professor Easterfield presided over a satisfactory attendance of members. The reports of the various sections of the society were read and adopted. Criticising the annual report, Mr. G. V. Hudson commented on the almost complete disappearance from the transactions of the society of original papers on New Zealand natural history. It was questionable whether such a wholesale elimination of natural history as had taken place was in the beßt interests of the Institute. The speaker also deprecated the partition of the society into a number of sections, each dealing with a particular phase of jts work. To his mind, one large society was bound to prosper more than a number of small sections. It was difficult <to associate bridges, patent cements, etc., with philosophy ! The reports and balance-sheet were adopted .without further discussion. The election of officers for the ensuing year resulted as follows :— President, Dr. C. Monro Hector; vice-presidents, Professor Kirk and Mt T. King; council, Professor Easterfield, Dr. Thomson, Messrs. G. Hogben, R. W. Holmes, B. C. Aston, E. Parry, and P. G. Morgan ; secretary and treasurer, Mr. C. E. Adams; auditor, Mr. E. R. Dymock. The meeting unanimously affirmed that : "Any member who shall not have paid the year's contribution on or before the first day of June shall be formally notified to that effect by the secretary, and should two years', contributions bo in arrears on that date the said member shall be informed that it will be necessary for tho council, < at its next ensuing meeting, to remove his (or her) name from the roll of members, unless the arrears have b«en paid up; provided always that the council shall have power to relax this rule, for special reasons assigned and recorded in its minutes." VARIOUS PAPERS. During the evening the transactions of the society received the following additions :—(1): — (1) "Unconformities in the Stratified Rocks of the West Coast of the South Island," by Mr. P. G. Morgan, M.A. (2) "Notes on a Tide-predicting Machine," by Mr. C. E. Adams, M.Sc. (3) "The Relation of the Great Marlborough* Conglomerate to the Underlying Formations in the Middle Clarence Valley" ; and (4) "Preliminary Note on the Uplifted East Coast of Marlborough," by Mr. C. A. Colton, M.Sc.