Contents - Volume 6, 1873

All full-page illustrations (plates) in this volume can be seen in the Picture Gallery.

• (title page)
• Errata Et Addenda.
• Contents.
  • Transactions.
  • Proceedings.
  • Appendix.
  • Illustrations.
• New Zealand Institute.
  • Established Under an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand Intituled “The New Zealand Institute Act, 1867.”
  • Abstracts of Rules and Statutes.
  • List of Incorporated Societies.
  • Wellington Philosophical Society.
  • Auckland Institute.
  • Philosophical Institute of canterbury.
  • Otago Institute.
  • Nelson Association for the Promotion of Science and Industry.

• Transactions

  • Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, 1873.

    • I.—Miscellaneous.

      • Art. I.—On the Variation of the Declination of the Magnetic Needle in the Southern Portion of the Middle Island, and Remarks on the Desirability of Establishing Magnetic Observatories in New Zealand.
      • Art. II.—On Observed Irregularities in the Action of the Compass in Iron Steam Vessels.
      • Art. III.—Description of the Patent Slip at Evans Bay, Wellington, and of the Mode of Erecting or Constructing the same.
      • Art. IV.—On a Smokeless and Self-feeding Furnace for Lignites and other Fuels, and the Utilization of the Waste Heat.
      • Art. V.—On the most Economic Mode of Felting Steam Boilers.
      • Art. VI.—On the Probability of a Water Supply being obtained for the City of Auckland from Mount Eden.
      • Art. VII.—Notes on the Proposition to Supply Auckland with Water from Mount Eden.
      • Art. VIII.—On the Reclamation of Sand Wastes on the Coast, and the Prevention of their Inland Advance.
      • Art. IX.—Notes on the Plants best Adapted for the Reclamation of Sand Wastes.
      • Art X.—Notes on Indigenous Materials for the Manufacture of Paper.
      • Art. XI.—On the Prediction of Occultations of Stars by the Moon.

    • II.—Zoology.

      • Art. XII.—On Harpagornis, an Extinct Genus of Gigantic Raptorial Birds of New Zealand.
      • Art. XIII.—On Cnemiornis calcitrans, Owen, showing its Affinity to the Lamellirostrate Natatores.
      • Art. XIV.—Notes on Delphinus forsteri.
      • Art. XV.—Notice of a Variation in the Dentition of Mesoplodon hectori, Gray.
      • Art. XVI.—List of Seals, Whales, and Dolphins of New Zealand.
      • Art. XVII.—Notice of the Skeleton of the New Zealand Right Whale (Macleayius australiensis).
      • Art. XVIII.—Notes on Dr. Hector's Paper on the Whales and Dolphins of the New Zealand Seas.
      • Art. XIX.—On the Occurrence of a New Species of Euphysetes (E. pottsii), a remarkably small Catodont Whale, on the Coast of New Zealand.
      • Art. XX.—On Cheimarrichthys fosteri, a New Genus belonging to the New Zealand Freshwater Fishes.
      • Art. XXI.—Notes on some New Zealand Fishes.
      • Art. XXII.—Notice of Motella novæ zealandiæ, n.s.
      • Art. XXIII.—On a New Genus of Rallidæ.
      • Art. XXIV.—Notes on the New Zealand Wood-hens (Ocydromus).
      • Art. XXV.—Notes on the Ornithology of New Zealand.
      • Art. XXVI.—Notes on the Little Bittern of New Zealand (Ardetta maculata).
      • Art. XXVII.—Note on Platycercus unicolor in the British Museum.
      • Art. XXVIII.—Remarks on Captain Hutton's Notes on Certain Species of New Zealand Birds.—
      • Art. XXIX.—Notes by Captain Hutton on Dr. Buller's “Birds of New Zealand,” with the Author's Replies thereto.
      • Art. XXX.—On the Birds of New Zealand.
      • Art. XXXI.—Note on the Occurrence of Dermestes lardarius and Phoracantha recurva in Canterbury, New Zealand.
      • Art. XXXII..—Notes upon certain recently-described New Genera and Species of Coleoptera, from Canterbury, New Zealand.
      • Art. XXXIII.—List of the Insects recorded as having been found in New Zealand previous to the Year 1870.
      • Art. XXXIV.—List of the Lepidoptera recorded as having been found in New Zealand previous to the Year 1871.
      • Art. XXXV.—Observations on the Occurrence of a Butterfly, new to New Zealand, of the Genus Danais.
      • Art. XXXVI.—An Introduction to the Study and Collection of the Araneidea in New Zealand. With a Description and Figures of Cambridgea fasciata, L. Koch, from Chatham Island; and also of a New Species of Macrothele, Auss., M. huttonii, Cambr., found at Wellington, New Zealand.

    • III.—BOTANY.

      • Art. XXXVII.—List of the Algæ of the Chatham Islands, collected by H. H. Travers, Esq., and examined by Professor John Agardh, of Lund. Communicated
      • Art. XXXVIII.—Notes on the Flora of the Province of Wellington, with a List of Plants collected therein.
      • Art. XXXIX.—Descriptions of some New Zealand Lichens, collected by John Buchanan in the Province of Wellington.
      • Art. XL.—On some New Species of New Zealand Plants.
      • Art. XLI.—Notice of an Undescribed Species of Cordyline.
      • Art. XLII.—On the New Zealand Forms of Cheilanthes.
      • Art. XLIII.—On the Spread of Cassinia leptophylla.

    • IV.—Chemistry.

      • Art. XLIV.—Notes upon the Mineral Oils of New Zealand.
      • Art. XLV.—Further Report on the Chemistry of Phormium tenax.

    • V.—Geology.

      • Art. XLVI.—On the Geological Structure of the Thames Gold Fields.
      • Art. XLVII.—On the Formation of Mountains; a Reply to the Rev. O. Fisher.
      • Art. XLVIII.—Port Nicholson an Ancient Fresh-water Lake.
      • Art. XLIX.—Notes on the Glacial Period.
      • Art. L.—On the Extinct Glaciers of the Middle Island of New Zealand.
      • Art. LI.—On the Glacial Action and Terrace Formations of South New Zealand.
      • Art. LII.—On the Fossil Reptilia of New Zealand.
      • Art. LIII.—On the Teeth of the Leiodon.
      • Description of Plates XXIV.—XXVI.

• Proceedings.

  • Wellington Philosophical Society.

    • First Meeting. 6th August, 1873. James Hector, M.D., F.R.S., President, in the chair.

      • Address.
      • On the Occurrence of Selenium and Tellurium in the Neighbourhood of Wellington,”
      • “Notes on the Fixing of Sand-hills,”

    • Second Meeting. 18th August, 1873. J. C. Crawford, F.G.S., Vice-President, in the chair.

      • Notes respecting the respecting the Recent Change in the Apex of Mount Cook,
      • Notes respecting a Hot Spring in the Bed of the Wataroa River, Westland
      • Notice of the Occurrence of a Red Spider among the Fruit Trees in the South, and the Disappearance of the Blight

    • Third Meeting. 1st September, 1873. J. C. Crawford, F.G.S., Vice-President, in the chair.

      • Suggestions for the conversion of Sawdust into Fuel.

    • Fourth Meeting. 22nd September, 1873. Captain F. W. Hutton, F.G.S., Vice-President, in the chair.

      • On a new Lepyrodia
    • Fifth Meeting. 13th October, 1873.
    • Sixth Meeting. 24th November, 1873. Charles Knight, F.R.C.S., President, in the chair.

    • Seventh Meeting. 16th January, 1874. Charles Knight, F.R.C.S., President, in the chair.

      • Notes on a Visit to White Island, in the course of a trip made in H.M.S. “Basilisk.”
      • Notes respecting the Moa caves at Earnscleugh, Otago.
      • Note on Sporadanthus, a new genus of plants from the Chatham Islands

    • Seventh Annual General Meeting. 26th January, 1874. Charles Knight, F.R.C.S., President, in the chair.

      • Abstract Report of Council.
      • Election of Officers for 1874.
      • On the Durability of New Zealand Timber, with Suggestions for its Preservation
      • On Solar and Terrestrial Radiation

  • Auckland Institute.

    • Annual General Meeting. 21st May, 1873. T. Heale, President, in the chair.

      • Abstract Report of the Council.
      • Election of Officers for 1873

    • Second Meeting. 9th June, 1873. His Honour T. B. Gillies, President, in the chair.

      • Address.
      • Report on, and Analysis of, the Water with which it is proposed to supply Shortland and Grahamstown. From the Colonial Laboratory, was communicated by His Honour the Superintendent

    • Third Meeting. 4th August, 1873. The Hon. Colonel Haultain in the chair.

      • Remarks on Dr. Bastian's recent work on the Beginnings of Life,

    • Fourth Meeting. 8th September, 1873. The Rev. A. G. Purchas, M.R.C.S.E., in the chair.

      • On Cosmography.
      • On Induction and Necessary Truth

    • Fifth Meeting. 6th October, 1873. The Hon. Colonel Haultain in the chair.

      • Remarks on Mr. Leith's paper on Cosmography,”

    • Sixth Meeting. 10th November, 1873. The Rev. A. G. Purchas, M.R.C.S.E., in the chair.

      • Report on Samples of Stone from the Tokatea Tunnel, was communicated by His Honour the Superintendent
    • Seventh Meeting. 8th December, 1873.

    • Annual General Meeting. 16th February, 1874. T. B. Gillies, President, in the chair.

      • Abstract Report of the Council.
      • Election of Officers for 1874

  • Philosophical Institute Of Canterbury.

    • First Meeting. 5th March, 1873. Henry John Tancred, President, in the chair.

      • Address.

    • Second Meeting. 2nd April, 1873. H. J. Tancred, President, in the chair.

      • On the Desirability of dedicating to the People of New Zealand small Areas of Ground, assimilating to the Village Greens of England.
      • (Abstract.)
    • Third Meeting. 7th May, 1873. G. W. Hall in the chair.

    • Fourth Meeting. 4th June, 1873. Julius Haast, Ph.D., F.R.S., in the chair.

      • Résumé of the Characters of the Family Epeiridæ.
      • Note upon recently-described New Zealand Coleoptera.
    • Fifth Meeting. 2nd July, 1873. H. J. Tancred, President, in the chair.
    • Sixth Meeting. 6th August, 1873. H. J. Tancred, President, in the chair.
    • Seventh Meeting. 3rd September, 1873. J. Inglis in the chair.

    • Eighth Meeting. 1st October, 1873. H. J. Tancred, President, in the chair.

      • Further Notes on recently-described New Zealand Coleoptera.

    • Annual General Meeting. 5th November, 1873. John Inglis in the chair.

      • Abstract Report of the Council.
      • Election of Officers for 1874

    • Extra Meeting. 4th December, 1873. Julius Haast, Ph.D., F.R.S., President, in the chair.

      • Exhibition of a Skeleton of Aptornis
    • First Meeting. 5th March, 1874. Julius Haast, Ph.D., F.R.S., President, in the chair.
    • A. Family Dinornithidæ.
    • B. Family Palapterygidæ.

  • Otago Institute.

    • First Meeting. 11th February, 1873. J. T. Thomson, F.R.G.S., Vice-President, in the chair.

      • Remarks on the Whale Fishery in the South Seas

    • Second Meeting. 24th April, 1873. R. Gillies in the chair.

      • A Visit to Sandymount District, Otago Peninsula, and a brief Description of some of its more prominent Natural Features.
      • (Abstract.)
      • On the Skull of a Grampus killed by the Maoris at the Heads.
      • (Abstract.)

    • Third Meeting. 13th May, 1873. R. Gillies in the chair.

      • Salmon Acclimatization in New Zealand.
      • (Abstract.)
    • Fourth Meeting. 8th July, 1873. The Rev. D. M. Stuart, D.D., Vice-President, in the chair.
    • Fifth Meeting. 12th August, 1873. J. T. Thomson, F.R.G.S., Vice-President, in the chair.
    • Sixth Meeting. 11th November, 1873. J. T. Thomson, F.R.G.S. Vice-President, in the chair.

    • Annual General Meeting. 17th February, 1874. J. T. Thomson, F.R.G.S., Vice-President, in the chair.

      • Election of Officers for 1874
      • On the Mythology and Traditions of the Maori in New Zealand.

    • First Meeting. 7th April, 1874. J. T. Thomson, F.R.G.S., President, in the chair.

      • Address.
      • Maori Traditions in the Native Language.
      • On some Naturalized Plants of Otago.
      • Remarks on Hepaticæ collected by Captain Hutton and Mr. Kirk.
      • Note on a Sea Trout caught in Otago Harbour.

  • Nelson Association for the Promotion of Science and Industry.

    • First Meeting. 17th March, 1873. J. Holloway in the chair.
    • Second Meeting. 8th July, 1873. J. Holloway in the chair.
    • Third Meeting. 8th November, 1873. J. Holloway in the chair.
    • Fourth Meeting. 12th November, 1873. J. Holloway in the chair.
    • Fifth Meeting. 19th January, 1874. J. Holloway in the chair.

    • Sixth Meeting. 21st May, 1874. Leonard Boor, M.R.C.S., in the chair.

      • Election of Officers for 1874
      • Note on a Green and Brown Spotted Lizard.

  • New Zealand Institute.

    • General Meeting. 20th September, 1873. His Excellency the Rt. Hon. Sir James Fergusson, Bart., President, in the chair.

      • Fifth Annual Report by the Board of Governors.
      • Accounts of the New Zealand Institute, 1872–73.
      • Address to His Excellency Sir G. F. Bowen, G.C.M.G.
      • Reply from His Excellency Sir George F. Bowen to the Address presented to him by the Governors of the Institute.
• Appendix.
  • The Climate of New Zealand.
    • Meteorological Statistics.
    • Table V.—Earthquakes reported in New Zealand during 1873.
    • Table VI.—Comparative Abstract for 1873, and previous Years.
    • Notes on the Weather during 1873.
    • Philological Considerations on the Whence of the Maori.*
    • On the Botany of Tahiti.
    • Abstract of Lecture on New Guinea.
    • A Catalogue of the Neuropterous Insects of New Zealand; with Notes and Descriptions of new Forms.
  • Honorary Members of the New Zealand Institute.
  • Ordinary Members.