OTAGO INSTITUTE.

Otago Witness, Issue 1912, 13 July 1888, Page 16

OTAGO INSTITUTE.

A meeting of tho Otago Institute was held in the lecture hall at the Museum on Tuesday evening, Professor Parker, F.R.S., presiding.

Dr Hocken referred in congratulatory terms to the conferment of the honour of fellowship of the Royal Society upon their chairman.

Professor Parker, in returning thanks for the compliment, said it was perhaps owing to a communication he had contributed on the kiwi that he had been singled out for the honour this year. He pointed out that hitherto this kind of work had all been done at Home, and expressed a hope that in a few years it might be done in the colony. When times got better it wonld also be advisable to have a travelling fellowship in connection with, the Otago University available for some of their more promising students. Attention was directed by the chairman to a number of specimens of trout, prepared by means of the glycerine process, for the tourists' court at the Melbourne Exhibition. These in-, eluded specimens of brown trout, Loch Leven trout, and burn trout.

The Secretary (Mr G. M. Thomson) read a paper by Mr W. W. Smith on the " Ornithology of Lake Brunner." The paper gave a good deal of interesting information regarding the habits of the kakapo, bushhawk, kea, New Zealand cuckoos, blackbird, tui, kingfisher, thrash, crow, saddleback, yellowhead, bittern, and crested grebe, and other New Zealand birds.

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