Mr L. P. Symes presided at last night’s meeting of tho Philosophical Institute. He offered tho congratulations of members to Dr Farr, Dr Chilton and Mr R. Speight on their election as three of the original Fellows of the New Zealand Institute. Reference was also made to the fact that Mr Speight’s name had been accidentally omitted from the published list of FelknwAwMx Mountfort. of the chemical department of tho Wools ton Tanneries, gave ah 'interesting address on hides aad leather, with lantern illustrations dealing with the process of manufacture. Mr S. Page delivered a lecture on clematis, and exhibited some very fine blooms. Mr R. Nairn exhibited a graft hybrid of the laburnum, Oy lisas adami, showing the yellow and purple: varieties and tho hybrid all growmg on the om*. .olont.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12790, 6 November 1919, Page 8
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