Contents - Volume 26, 1893

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• Transactions of the New Zealand Institute
• (title page)
• Corrigenda.
• Contents.
• List of Plates.
• New Zealand Institute.
  • Board Of Governors.
  • Abstracts of Rules and Statutes.
  • List of Incorporated Societies.
  • Officers of Incorporated Societies, and Extracts from the Rules.

• Transactions

  • Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, 1893.

    • I.—Zoology.

      • Art I.—Contribution to the Osteology of the Aborigines of New Zealand and of the Chatham Islands.
      • Art II.—Further Coccid Notes: with Descriptions of several New Species, and Discussion of various Points of Interest.
      • Art. III.—Notes on New Zealand, Neuroptera.
      • Art. IV.—-Description of a Large Species of Iulus.
      • Art. V.—Notes on Spiders.
      • Art. VI.—Description of a New Species of Ophiuridæ.
      • Art. VII.—On the Anatomy of the Pig-fish (Agriopus leucopœcilus).
      • Art. VIII.—Further Contributions to the Knowledge of the Molluscan Fauna of New Zealand, with Descriptions of Eight new Species.
      • Art. IX.—Check-list of the New Zealand Land and Freshwater Mollusca.
      • Art. X.—Further Notes on New Zealand Earthworms.
      • Art. XI.—Contribution to a Knowledge of the New Zealand Sponges.
      • Art. XII.—On a New Rail from the Auckland Islands.
      • Art. XIII.—Brief Ornithological Notes.
      • Art. XIV.—On the Birds observed during a Voyage from New Zealand to England.
      • Art. XV.—On the Importance of New Zealand Biological Collections.
      • Art. XVI.—Descriptions of New Species of Araneæ.
      • Art. XVII.—Notes on the New Zealand Bats.
      • Art. XVIII.—Note on the Occurrence of Lophotes in New Zealand Waters.
      • Art. XIX.—Notes on Three Moa-skulls, probably referable to the Genus Pachyornis.
      • Art. XX.—Result of a Further Exploration of the Bonefissure at the Castle Rocks, Southland.
      • Art. XXI.—Materials for a Bibliography of the Dinornithidæ, the Great Extinct Birds of New Zealand, usually called Moas.

    • II.—Botany.

      • Art. XXII.—Description of a New Species of Pimelea.
      • Art. XXIII.—Description of New Cyperaceous Plants, chiefly from the Nelson Provincial District.
      • Art. XXIV.—Remarks on the New Zealand Sow-thistles, with Description of a New Species.
      • Art. XXV.—Descriptions of New Native Plants, &c.
      • Art. XXVI.—On Four New Species of New Zealand Musci.
      • Art. XXVII.—On some little-known New Zealand Mosses.
      • Plate XXXc.
      • Art. XXVIII.—Notes on New Zealand Mosses: Genus Pottia.
      • Art. XXIX.—Musci: Notes on the Genus Gymnostomum, with Descriptions of New Species.
      • Art. XXX.—Notes on some New Species of New Zealand Musci: Genus Phascum.
      • Art. XXXI.—On Lessonia variegata, J. Ag., Mscr.
      • Art. XXXII.—On the Occurrence of Xanthium strumarium, Linn., in New Zealand.
      • Art. XXXIII.—Phænogams: A Description of a few Newly-discovered Indigenous Plants; being a Further Contribution towards the making known the Botany of New Zealand.
      • Art. XXXIV.—A List of Fungi recently collected in the Bush District, County of Waipawa; being a Further Contribution to the Indigenous Flora of New Zealand.
      • Art. XXXV.—Notes, Remarks, and Reminiscences of Two Peculiar Introduced and Naturalised South American Plants.
      • Art. XXXVI.—On Four Notable Foreign Plants.

    • III.—Geology.

      • Art. XXXVII.—The Nelson Earthquake of the 12th of February, 1893.
      • ART. XXXVIII.—On a New Plesiosaur from the Waipara River.
      • Art. XXXIX.—On Conchothyra parasitica.
      • Art. XL.—Notes on the Geology of Kuaotunu Goldfield.
      • Art. XLI.—On the Occurrence of some Rare Minerals in New Zealand.
      • Art. XLII.—Tridymite-Trachyte of Lyttelton.
      • Art. XLIII.—The Volcanic Outburst at Te Mari, Tongariro, in November, 1892.
      • Art. XLIV.—Notes on the Geology of the Country between Dannevirke and Wainui, Hawke's Bay.
      • Art. XLV.—Pebbles and Drifting Sand.
      • Art. XLVI.—Notes on the Piako and Waikato Riverbasins.
      • Art. XLVII.—On a Doleritic Dyke at Dyer's Pass.
      • Art. XLVII.—Geology of Nelson.

    • IV.—Miscellaneous.

      • Art. XLIX.—Maori Implements and Weapons.
      • Art. L—Why should School-teaching provide only for the Counter or the Desk?
      • Art. LI.—Description of a Compound Seismograph.
      • Art. LII.—The Effect of Current Electricity on Plant-growth: Further Experiments.
      • Art. LIII.—Some Recent Evidence in favour of Impact.
      • Art. LIV.—A New and Simple Graphic Method of projecting Occultations and Solar Eclipses not hitherto published.
      • Art. LV.—A Further Note on Rainbows.
      • Art. LVI.—“More Last Words”: being an Appendix to several Papers read here during Past Sessions on the Volcanic Mountain-range of Tongariro and Ruapehu, with its adjoining District.
      • Art. LVII.—Notes and Observations on M. A. de Quatrefages Paper “On Moas and Moa-hunters,” republished in Vol. XXV., Transactions New Zealand Institute.
      • Art. LVIII.—A Maori Pa at Lake Te Anau.
      • Art. LIX.—Note on the supposed Fire-drill found in the Cave at Moa-bone Point, Sumner.
      • Art LX.—The Disposal of Sewage by Application to the Soil (Sewage Farming).
      • Art. LXI.—Tuberculosis in Man and Animals.
      • Art. LXII.—Old Maori Civilisation.
      • Art. LXIII.—Skeleton revealed by Dew.
      • Art. LXIV.—On a Remarkable Appearance of Two Triple Bows, seen at Invercargill.
      • Art. LXV.—Tennyson and Browning: A Retrospect of Victorian Poetry.
      • Art. LXVI.—The Date of the Extinction of the Moa.
      • Art. LXVII.—Note on a Curious Maori Flute in the Collection of the late Dr. Shortland.
      • Art. LXVIII.—Note on a Remarkable Maori Implement in the Hunterian Museum at Glasgow.
      • Art. LXIX.—The Story of Papaitonga; or, A Page of Maori History.
      • Art. LXX.—Te Kuri maori (the Dog of New Zealand). A Reply to the Rev. W. Colenso.
      • Art. LXXI.—Spiders as Engineers.
      • Art. LXXII.—On a Common Vital Force.
      • Art. LXXIII.—Public Ferneries: A Suggestion.

• New Zealand Institute

  • New Zealand Institute.

    • Twenty-fifth Annual Report, with a Memorandum Thereto.
    • New Zealand Institute Accounts for 1892–93.
    • Memorandum regarding the New Zealand Institute, being an Addition to the Annual Report presented 19th July, 1893.

• Proceedings

  • Wellington Philosophical Society.

    • First Meeting: 14th June, 1893. Major-General Schaw, C.B., R.E., President, in the Chair.

      • Address by the President.
      • Earthquakes.
      • Ornithology.
      • Entomology.
      • Evolution.
      • Remarks on a Fiji Snake Imported with Bananas.

    • Second Meeting: 28th June, 1893. General Schaw, President, in the Chair.

      • Remarks on a Tame Kea.
      • On Peripatus novœ - zealandiœ.

    • Third Meeting: 26th July, 1893. Major-General Schaw, President, in the chair.

      • On Ossiferous Clay Found at Queen Charlotte Sound.
      • Remarks on Apteryx maxima.
      • Exhibits Described

    • Fourth Meeting: 9th August, 1893. Major-General Schaw, President, in the chair.

      • Description of Rock-paintings at Albury.

    • Fifth Meeting: 6th September, 1893. General Schaw, President, in the chair.

      • On Mental Operations in Sleep.
      • Exhibit of Minerals from Cheviot.
    • Sixth Meeting: 20th September, 1893. Major-General Schaw, President, in the chair.
    • Seventh Meeting: 11th October, 1893. Major-General Schaw, President, in the chair.

    • Eighth Meeting: 1st November, 1893. Major-General Schaw, President, in the chair.

      • Note on Phytomyza affinis, Fallen

    • Ninth Meeting: 13th December, 1893. Major-General Schaw, President, in the chair.

      • Exhibits collected

    • Annual Meeting: 21st February, 1894. Sir James Hector in the chair. New Members.—Mr. Hawthorn and Mr. Barnes.

      • Abstract of Annual Report.
      • Election of Officers for 1894

  • Auckland Institute

    • First Meeting: 29th May, 1893.

    • Second Meeting: 19th June, 1893.

      • On a puka (Meryta sinclairii gnawed
      • On the Necessity for a good Maori lexicon
    • Third Meeting: 3rd July, 1893.

    • Fourth Meeting: 7th August, 1893.

      • On the Liquefaction of Gases

    • Fifth Meeting: 28th August, 1893.

      • Notes on the Crater of White Island

    • Sixth Meeting: 11th September, 1893.

      • On the Persistence of Savagery.

    • Seventh Meeting: 9th October, 1893.

      • On the British Empire in India

    • Eighth Meeting: 23rd October, 1893.

      • Note on the Nesting Habits of the Matuku, or Bittern

    • Annual General Meeting: 19th February, 1894. Mr. T. Peacock in the chair.

      • Abstract of Annual Report.
      • Election of Officers for 1894
      • Resolution as to securing the Little Barrier Island as a preserve for Native Birds

  • Philosophical Institute of Canterbury.

    • First Meeting: 3rd May, 1893. Professor Bickerton in the chair.

      • Chlorine a Cure for Consumption

    • Second Meeting: 7th June, 1893. Professor Bickerton in the chair.

      • A Simple System of Graphic Formulæ as applied to Organic Chemistry
    • Third Meeting: 5th July, 1893. R. M. Laing, M.A., B.Sc., in the chair.
    • Fourth Meeting: 2nd August, 1893. Professor Bickerton in the chair.
    • Fifth Meeting: 6th September, 1893. Professor Bickerton in the chair.

    • Sixth Meeting: 4th October, 1893. Professor Bickerton in the chair.

      • On Nova Auriga in connection with his theory of cosmic impact

    • Seventh Meeting: 1st November, 1893. Professor Bickerton in the chair.

      • Our Immortal Cosmos
      • Stability of Cosmic Spheres
      • Theory of Hail
      • Abstract Of Annual Report.
      • Election of Officers for 1894

  • Otago Institute.

    • First Meeting: 9th May, 1893. Dr. T. M. Hocken, President, in the chair.

      • Exhibits described

    • Second Meeting: 13th June, 1893. Dr. T. M. Hocken, President, in the chair.

      • On Dredgings from the Bounty Islands
      • Presentation and Addition to the library

    • Third Meeting: 11th July, 1893. Dr. T. M. Hocken, President, in the chair.

      • Exhibits described
      • On the modes of burial of the Maoris

    • Fourth Meeting: 12th August, 1893. Dr. T. M. Hocken, President, in the chair.

      • Models of specimens of Natural objects described

    • Fifth Meeting: 19th September, 1893. Mr. C. W. Adams, Vice-president, in the chair.

      • Observations on local Avifauna
      • On the development of the chicken

    • Sixth Meeting: 10th October, 1893. Dr. Hocken, President, in the chair.

      • On the Early History of New Zealand

    • Seventh Meeting: 14th November, 1893. Dr. T. M. Hocken, President, in the chair.

      • Exhibits of Local orchids
      • On the Cultivation of the Auckland Islands Antherium.
      • Abstract of Annual Report.
      • Election of Officers for 1894.

  • Westland Institute

    • Annual Meeting: 19th December, 1893.

      • Abstract of Annual Report.
      • Election of Officers for 1894.

  • Hawke's Bay Philosophical Institute.

    • First Meeting: 8th May, 1893. Dr. Moore, President, in the chair.

      • Annual address, the New Mesmerism

    • Second Meeting: 12th June, 1893. Mr. T. Humphries, Vice-president, in the chair.

      • A Humble Precursor of Darwin—Rev. Ezekiel Blomfield
    • Third Meeting: 10th July, 1893. T. Humphries, Vice-president, in the chair.

    • Fourth Meeting: 7th August, 1893. Dr. Moore, President, in the chair.

      • Forms of Burial: a Plea for Cremation

    • Fifth Meeting: 11th September, 1893. Dr. Moore, President, in the chair.

      • Mohammedanism and its Present Relations with Christianity
      • Some Difficulties of a Self-taught Student of Chemistry

    • Sixth Meeting: 9th October, 1893 Mr. J. W. Craig in the chair.

      • How Spiders walk on Water
      • Remarks on the Anniversary of Cook's Arrival at Hawke's Bay.
      • Abstract of Annual Report.
      • Election of Officers for 1894.

  • Nelson Philosophical Society

    • First Meeting: 12th June, 1893. The Bishop of Nelson, President, in the chair.

      • List of Presentations

    • Annual Meeting: 11th December, 1893. The Bishop of Nelson, President, in the chair.

      • Abstract of Annual Report.
      • Election of Officers for 1894.
      • List of Presentations
      • The Massacre of St. Bartholomew
      • Addendum to Proceedings of Wellington Philosophical Society for 6th September, 1893.
• Appendix
  • Meteorology.
  • Remarks On The Weather During 1893.
  • Earthquakes reported in New Zealand during 1893.
• New Zealand Institute.
  • Honorary Members.
  • Ordinary Members.
  • List Of Institutions And Persons To Whom
• Index.