Contents - Volume 28, 1895

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

• Transactions of the New Zealand Institute
• (title page)
• Corrigenda.
• Contents.
• 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 1895.

    • I.—Miscellaneous.

      • Art. I.—The Displacement of Species in New Zealand.
      • Art. II.—True Instincts of Animals.
      • Art. III.—The Ancient Tribe Te Panenehu.
      • Art. IV.—The History of Otakanini Pa, Kaipara.
      • Art. V.—Volcanic Activity in Sunday Island in 1814.
      • Art. VI.—On Dusky Sound.
      • Art. VII.—The Ceremony of Rahui.
      • Art. VIII.—The Railway and its Place in Social Economy.
      • Art. IX.—Antarctic Research.
      • Art. X.—A Wellington Weather Prognostic.
      • Art. XI.—The Ultimate Problem of Philosophy.
      • Art. XII.—Memorabilia of certain Animal Prodigies, Native and Foreign, Ancient and Modern.
      • Art. XIII.—Democracy.
      • Art. XIV.—The Training of Teachers for Primary Schools.
      • Art. XV.—Abel Tasman and his Journal.
      • Art. XVI.—On an Account of a Massacre at the Entrance of Dunedin Harbour in the Year - 1817.
      • Art. XVII.—On the Forests of New Zealand.
      • Art. XVIII.—On the Rise and Progress of our Knowledge of the Oceanic Areas.
      • Art. XIX.—A Comparison of the Magnetic Screening produced by Different Metals.
      • Art. XX.—Magnetic Viscosity.

    • II.—Zoology.

      • Art. XXI.—New Zealand Sponges: Third Paper.
      • Art. XXII.—Notes on New Zealand Land Planarians: Part II.
      • Art. XXIII.—Note on the Discovery of Living Specimens of Geonemertes novæ-zealandiæ.
      • Art. XXIV.—New Zealand Diptera: No. 1.
      • Art. XXV.—New Zealand Diptera: No. 2.—Myceto-philidæ.
      • Art. XXVI.—New Zealand Diptera: No. 3.-Simulidæ.
      • Art. XXVII.—On Dodonidia helmsi, fereday.
      • Art. XXVIII.—Notes on some New Zealand Fishes, with Description of a New Species.
      • Art. XXIX.—Further Contributions to the Molluscan Fauna of New Zealand.
      • Art. XXX.—On a New Species of Deinacrida or Forest-cricket from Nelson.
      • Art. XXXI.—Notes on New Zealand Ornithology, with an Exhibition of Specimens.
      • Art. XXXII.—On the Occurrence of the Nankeen Kestrel of Australia (Cerchneis cenchroides) in New Zealand.
      • Art. XXXIII.—Notes on some Species of New Zealand Birds.
      • Art. XXXIV.—Bird-life on a Run.
      • Art. XXXV.—An Ornithological Note.
      • Art. XXXVI.—Notes on Rare Lepidoptera in Wellington.
      • Art. XXXVII.—On the Unusual Abundance of Certain Species of Plume-moths during the Summer of 1894–95.
      • Art. XXXVIII.—Further Coccid Notes: with Descriptions of New Species, and Discussion of Questions of Interest.
      • Art. XXXIX.—Contributions towards a Monograph of the Aleurodidæ, a Family of Hemiptera-Homoptera.
      • Art. XL.—Zoological Notes, Nelson District.
      • Art. XLI.—Animal and Vegetable Parasites associated with the Production of Neoplasms in Cattle and Sheep.
      • Art. XLII.—Notes on the Cicadidæ of New Zealand.
      • Art. XLIII.—List of New Zealand Hydroida.
      • Art. XLIV.—On the Habits of New Zealand Ants.
      • Art. XLV.—On the Construction of the Comb of the Hive-bee.

    • III.—Botany.

      • Art. XLVI.—Notes on MS. Descriptions of Collections made during Captain Cook's First Voyage.
      • Art. XLVII.—Notes on Dactylanthus taylori, Hook. f.
      • Art. XLVIII.—On Zannichellia and Lepilæna in New Zealand.
      • Art. XLIX.—On the Products of a Ballast-heap.
      • Art. L.—Notice of the Occurrence of an Undescribed Palm-lily on the Auckland Peninsula.
      • Art. LI.—A Revision of the New Zealand Species of Hymenanthera, R. Br.
      • Art. LII.—Notes on Certain Veronicas, and Descriptions of New Species.
      • Art. LIII.—New Zealand Musci : Notes on a New Genus.
      • Art. LIV.—On some Additions to the New Zealand Flora.
      • Art. LV.—Botanical Notes, Nelson District.
      • Art. LVI.—Descriptions of Three New Native Plants.
      • Art. LVII.—List of the Flowering Plants indigenous to Otago, with Indications of their Distribution and Range in Altitude.
      • Art. LVIII.—Phænogams : A Description of a few more Newly-discovered Indigenous Plants; being a Further Contribution towards the making known the Botany of New Zealand.
      • Art. LIX.—New Zealand Cryptogams : A List of a Few Additional Cryptogamic Plants, of the Orders Hepaticæ and Fungi, more recently detected in New Zealand.
      • Art. LX.—Cryptogams: A Description of Two new Ferns, a New Lycopodium, and a New Moss, lately detected in our New Zealand Forests.
      • Art. LXI.—A Description of Three Ferns, believed to be Undescribed, discovered more than Fifty Years ago in the Northern District of New Zealand.
      • Art. LXII.—Note on a Branched Specimen of a Tree-fern (Hemitelia smithii).
      • Art. LXIII.—On Cordiceps robertsii.

    • IV.—Geology.

      • Art. LXIV.—Notes on some Rocks from the Kermadec Islands.
      • Art. LXV.—On a Deposit of Moa-bones at Kapua.
      • Art. LXVI.—On the Moa-bones from Enfield.
      • Art. LXVII.—On the Discovery of Moa-remains on Riverton Beach.
      • Art. LXVIII.—On the Behaviour of Two Artesian Wells at the Canterbury Museum.
      • Art. LXIX.—On the Affinities of Harpagornis: a Letter to Professor T. Jeffery Parker
      • Art. LXX.—Denudation as a Factor of Geological Time.
      • Art. LXXI.—Ruapehu and the Volcanic Zone in 1895: No. IV.

    • V.—Chemistry.

      • Art. LXXII.—Iron from the Titaniferous Sand of New Zealand.
      • Art. LXXIII.—On the Action of Potassium-Cyanide Solution upon Gold.
      • Art. LXXIV.—Notes on Mr. J. S. Maclaurin's Paper on the Action of Potassium-Cyanide Solutions upon Gold.

• New Zealand Institute.

  • New Zealand Institute

    • Twenty-seventh Annual Report.
    • New Zealand Institute Accounts for 1894–95.

• Proceedings.

  • Wellington Philosophical Society.

    • First Meeting: 3rd July, 1895.

    • Second Meeting : 17th July, 1895.

      • On the Discovery of a New River and Valley in the Vicinity of Milford Sound.

    • Third Meeting : 31st July, 1895.

      • Remarks on the late Dr. David Lyall, R.N.
    • Fourth Meeting: 21st August, 1895.

    • Fifth Meeting: 4th September, 1895.

      • Remarks on Antarctic Research.

    • Sixth Meeting: 25th September, 1895.

      • On a Cranial Fallacy

    • Seventh Meeting: 16th October, 1895.

      • On Seasonal Time-adjustment in Countries South of Lat. 30°
      • Remarks on an Albino Tui and Naultinus versicolor
      • Remarks on Aristotelia racemosa
      • Remarks on Drawings of New Zealand Veronicas

    • Eighth Meeting: 13th November, 1895.

      • Resolution with regard to the late Professor C. V. Riley
      • Note on the Geology of the Outlying Islands of New Zealand
      • Note on Double-flowered Columbine

    • Ninth Meeting : 27th November, 1895.

      • Election of Governors of New Zealand Institute
      • Discussion on the Geology of the Outlying Islands of New Zealand
      • On a New Species of Luminous Fish (Polyipnus kirkii)

    • Tenth Meeting: 18th December; 1895.

      • On an Eclipse Phenomenon
      • Exhibit of Sketches

    • Annual Meeting: 26th February, 1896. Mr. Maskell in the chair.

      • Abstract of Annual Report.
      • Election of Officers for 1896
      • List of Exhibits

  • Auckland Institute.

    • First Meeting: 3rd June, 1895.

      • Life and Crystals: Anniversary Address

    • Second Meeting: 17th June, 1895.

      • On Argon, the Newly-discovered Constituent of the Air

    • Third Meeting : 1st July, 1895.

      • Social Problems: Poverty and Unemployed Labour in Civilised Communities

    • Fourth Meeting: 15th July, 1895.

      • The Recent Chitral Difficulty, and the Future of the Country between Western Afghanistan and the Indus
    • Fifth Meeting: 5th August, 1895.

    • Sixth Meeting : 19th August, 1895.

      • The Dawn of the English Drama

    • Seventh Meeting : 2nd September, 1895.

      • Two Coming Eclipses
      • Browning's Vision of Life

    • Eighth Meeting: 16th September, 1895.

      • Art and Photography
    • Ninth Meeting: 7th October, 1895.
    • Tenth Meeting: 21st October, 1895.

    • Annual Meeting: 24th February, 1896.

      • Abstract of Annual Report.
      • Election of Officers for 1896

  • Philosophical Institute of Canterbury.

    • First Meeting: 1st May, 1895.
    • Second Meeting : 5th June, 1895.
    • Third Meeting : 3rd July, 1895.

    • Fourth Meeting : 7th August, 1895.

      • Periodimeter, for measuring Periods of Rapidly-oscillating Currents
    • Special General Meeting : 2nd October, 1895.

    • Fifth Meeting : 2nd October 1895.

      • Note of Occurrence of Mus rattus at Opawa

    • Sixth Meeting : 6th November, 1895.

      • On the Dicraniums of New Zealand

    • Annual Meeting: 18th April, 1896.

      • Abstract OF Annual Report.
      • Election of Officers for 1896
      • Exhibit of Nests and Young of the Katipo
      • On the Holothurians of New Zealand

  • Otago Institute.

    • First Meeting : 14th May, 1895.

      • Exhibit of New Zealand Passion-flower

    • Second Meeting: 11th June, 1895.

      • Remarks on an Egg of Megapodius pritchardi
      • On a Method of Colour-mixing
      • On the Etymology of the word “Penguin.”

    • Third Meeting : 9th July, 1895.

      • Natural History: Notes of a Trip in the “Hinemoa.”

    • Fourth Meeting: 13th August, 1895.

      • Notice of a Catalogue of Flowering-plants found near Dunedin
      • On the Anti-toxin Treatment of Diphtheria
      • Professor Huxley, from the Point of View of a Disciple
    • Fifth Meeting: 10th September, 1895.

    • Sixth Meeting: 8th October, 1895.

      • Remarks on an Arrow-head Worm (Spadella) from New Zealand Waters
      • On New Zealand Fisheries, and the Desirability of introducing New Species of Fish

    • Annual Meeting: 12th November, 1895.

      • Abstract of Annual Report.
      • Election of Officers for 1896
      • Resolution regarding Dr. J. Murray completing the “Challenger” Reports

  • Hawke's Bay Philosophical Institute.

    • First Meeting: 13th May, 1895.

      • Anniversary Address

    • Second Meeting: 10th June, 1895.

      • The Zoda or Thodawar Tribe of Madras, and their Funeral Customs
      • Bimetallism

    • Third Meeting: 15th July, 1895.

      • Reminiscences of the Tin-mines of Cornwall Seventy Years Ago
      • The Coinage of England under Charles I.

    • Fourth Meeting: 12th August, 1895.

      • Native Names of Places

    • Fifth Meeting: 9th September, 1895.

      • On University Extension in New Zealand

    • Sixth Meeting: 21st October, 1895.

      • On Pond Spiders
      • A Hunting Spider
      • Rats nesting in Trees
      • The Moa and the Maoris
      • On Antarctic Exploration

    • Annual Meeting: 9th March, 1896.

      • Abstract of Annual Report.
      • Election of Officers for 1896

  • Nelson Philosophical Society.

    • First Meeting: 16th September, 1895.

      • On the Anti-toxin Treatment of Diphtheria
      • List of Exhibits

    • Annual Meeting: 13th January, 1896.

      • Abstract of Annual Report.
      • Election of Officers for 1896
      • Remarks on the Government of the New Zealand Institute
      • List of Exhibits
• Appendix.
  • Meteorology.
  • Remarks on the Weather During 1895.
  • Earthquakes reported in New Zealand during 1895
  • New Zealand Institute.
    • Honorary Members of the New Zealand Institute
  • Ordinary Members
  • List of Institutions and Persons to Whom This Volume is Presented by the Governors of the New Zealand Institute.
• Index.
  • Authors.
  • Subjects.