Auckland Institute. Anniversary Address by the President. (Abstract) 558 On a new Genus of Silphidæ. By Captain T. Broun, M.E.S. 558 Our Water Supply. By Mr. Justice Gillies 558 Descriptions of some new Species of Beetles of the Genus Sagola. By Captain T. Broun 558 The Law of Tolerance. By E. A. Mackechnie 558 Comparative Philology and its relation to Polynesia. By Prof. T. G. Tucker 559 New Species of Carabidæ. By Captain T. Broun 559 A Visit to Lord Howe's Group, Central Polynesia. By G. H. Moore 559 Psychological Investigations. By W. D. Campbell, F.G.S. 559 New Species of Coleoptera. By Captain T. Broun 559 The Spell of the Supernatural. By E. A. Mackechnie 559 New Species of Coleoptera. By Captain T. Broun 559 The Citizenship of Women. By Dr. Wallis 560 The New Zealand Railways. By S. Vaile 560 Abstract of Annual Report 560 Election of Officers for 1884 560 Philosophical Institute of Canterbury. The Small Birds Question. By M. Murphy 561 On the Artesian Water Supply of Christchurch. By G. Gray 561 On the Economic Limit to the Use of Reservoirs. By E. Dobson 561 Notes on the Fertilization of Red Clover. Ry J. B. Armstrong 561 A Visit to the Central Alps of New Zealand. By Dr. R. von Lendenfeld 562 The Germ Theory of Disease, with special reference to the Infectiveness of Consumption. By Dr. R. H. Bakewell 562 On the Hot Winds of Canterbury. By F. Barkas 562 Abstract of Annual Report 563 Election of Officers for 1884 563 Otago Institute. Embryos of Callorhynchus antarcticus described. By Dr. T. J. Parker 564 The Nationalization of Land. By F. R. Chapman 564–565 The Lower Harbour and Bar of Otago. By G. M. Barr, C.E. 565 Skeleton of Porbeagle Shark exhibited. By Dr. Barker 565 Technical Education. By Prof. Mainwaring Brown 565 New Species of Coprosma. By D. Petrie 565 Abstract of Annual Report 566 Election of Officers for 1884 566 Science and Ordinary Knowledge. By A. Montgomery 566 Westland Institute. Abstract of Annual Report 567 Hawke's Bay Philosophical Institute. Election of Officers for 1883 568 Abstract of Annual Report for 1882 568 Contributions towards a better Knowledge of the Maori Race. Part V. On the Hawaiki of the Maoris and the Greenstone Legends. Division I. By W. Colenso, F.L.S. 568 The Indigenous Vegetable Products of the Country. By W. Colenso 569