Contents - Volume 31, 1898

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• Transactions of the New Zealand Institute
• (title page)
• “Transactions of the New Zealand Institute.”
  • Corrigenda in Vol. XXX., Art. LIV.
• Contents.
  • Transactions.
  • New Zealand Institute.
  • Proceedings.
  • Appendix.
• List of Plates.
• 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.
  • Roll of Incorporated Societies.
  • Officers of Incorporated Societies, and Extracts from the Rules.

• Transactions

  • Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, 1898.

    • I.—Zoology.

      • Art. I.—On the Ornithology of New Zealand.
      • Art. II.—On the Appearance of Anosia bolina in the Wellington District.
      • Art. III.—Supplement to the Stenopelmatidæ of New Zealand.
      • Art. IV.—Notes on the New Zealand Acrididæ.
      • Art. V.—Revision of the New Zealand Phasmidæ.
      • Art. VI.—New Zealand Polyplacophora : Keys to Genera and Species.
      • Art. VII.—Revision of the New Zealand Pleurotomidæ, with Descriptions of Six New Species.
      • Art. VIII.—Notes on New Zealand Galaxidæ, mare especially those of the Western Slopes: with Descriptions of New Species, &c.
      • Art. IX.—On Exocœtus ilma: a New Species of Flying-fish.
      • Art. X.—Notes on Parore (the Mangrove Fish).
      • Art. XI.—Formaline in Museology.
      • Art. XII.—On the Habits of Dermestes vulpinus.
      • Art. XIII.—Notice of the Occurrence of the Australian Snipe (Gallinago australis) in New Zealand.
      • Art. XIV.—A Contribution to the Study of the Rotifera of New Zealand.
      • Art. XV.—A List of Marine Shells found at Whangarei Heads.
      • Art. XVI.—Birds of the Bay of Islands.
      • Art. XVII.—Notes on the Fourth Skin, of Notornis.
      • Art. XVIII.—Notes on certain of the Viscera of Notornis.
      • Art. XIX.—A He-examination of Hutton's Types of New Zealand Earthworms.
      • Art. XX.—On New Zealand Ephemeridæ: Two Species.
      • Art. XXI.—A Revision of the Crustacea Anomura of New Zealand.
      • Art. XXII.—Synonymy of the New Zealand Orchestidæ.
      • Art. XXIII.—The Neuroptera of New Zealand.
      • Art. XXIV.—The Life-history of the Tuatara (Sphenodon punctatum).
      • Art. XXV.—List of New Zealand Mollusca described in Foreign Publications since 1890.

    • II.—Botany.

      • Art. XXVI.—A Description of some Newly Discovered Indi genous New Zealand Ferns.
      • Art. XXVII.—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. XXVIII.—The Fungus Flora of New Zealand.
      • Art. XXIX.—On the Occurrence of Ottelia in New Zealand.
      • Art. XXX.—Description of a New Species of Corysanthes.
      • Art. XXXI.—Botanical Notes.
      • Art. XXXII.—An Inquiry into the Seedling Forms of New Zealand Phanerogams and their Development.
      • Art. XXXIII.—On the Burning and Reproduction of Subalpine Scrub and its Associated Plants; with Special. Reference to Arthur's Pass District.
      • Art. XXXIV.—Descriptions of New Species of Astelia, Veronica, and Celmisia.
      • Art. XXXV.—On Ligusticum trifoliatum, Hook. f.
      • Art. XXXVI.—Some Recent Additions to the Moss-Flora of New Zealand.
      • Art. XXXVII.—Notes on the New Zealand Musci.
      • Art. XXXVIII.—Notes on New Zealand Musci, and Descriptions of New Species.
      • Art. XXXIX.—On the Future of the New Zealand Bush.

    • III.—Geology.

      • Art. XL.—Corrections in the Names of Some New Zealand Rocks.
      • Art. XLI.—On a Supposed Rib of the Kumi, or Ngarara.
      • Art. XLII.—On the Footprint of a Kiwi-like Bird from Manaroa.
      • Art. XLIII.—Notes on a West Coast Dolerite.
      • Art. XLIV.—Notes on a Hypersthene Andesite from White Island.
      • Art. XLV.—Notes on a Hornblende Trachyte from Tawhetarangi.
      • Art. XLVI.—On Occurrences of Gold in the Coromandel District.
      • Art. XLVII.—On the Geology of Te Moehau.
      • Art. XLVIII.—Some Notes on the Volcanoes of the Taupo District.
      • Art. XLIX.—The Volcanoes of the Pacific.
      • Art. L.—On the Artesian Wells at Longburn.

    • IV.—Chemistry and Physics.

      • Art. LI.—An Instrument for roughly determining the Relative Thermometric Conductivities of Liquids.
      • Art. LII.—On the Distillation Products of the Blackball Coal.
      • Art. LIII.—Contact Metamorphism at the New Brockley Coal-mine (Malvern Hills).
      • Art. LIV.—Analyses (Technical) of New Zealand Coals.
      • Art. LV.—On the Apparent Occlusion of Sulphuretted Hydrogen in a Bituminous Goal.
      • Art. LVI.—On the Interaction of Cyclones' upon one another.
      • Art. LVII.—Further Light on the Circulation of the Atmosphere in the Southern Hemisphere.
      • Art. LVIII.—On Seasonal Time.
      • Art. LIX.—The Wanganui Earthquake of the 8th December 1897.
      • Art. LX.—Notes on the Comparison of some Elements of Earthquake Motion as observed in New Zealand, with their Theoretic Values.
      • Art. LXI.—The Tasmanian Earthquake of the. 27th January, 1892.
      • Art. LXII.—A Graphic Method of Calculating Cubic Content of Excavation, as for Water-races on Uneven Ground.

    • V.—Miscellaneous.

      • Art. LXIII.—Inaugral Address.
      • Art. LXIV.—Congenital Stigmata.
      • Art. LXV.—The Art of the Whare Pora: Notes on the Clothing of the Ancient Maori, their Knowledge of preparing, dyeing, and weaving Various Fibres, together with some Account of Dress and Ornaments, and the Ancient Ceremonies and Superstitions of the Whare Pora.
      • Art. LXVI.—A Comparison of New Zealand Mortality during the Periods 1874–81 and 1881–91.
      • Art. LXVII.—A Comparison of the General Mortality in New Zealand, in Victoria and New South Wales, and in England.
      • Art. LXVIII.—An Account of the Fiji Fire Ceremony.
      • Art. LXIX.—Moa Farmers.
      • Art. LXX.—Old Huts at Dusky Sound.
      • Art. LXXI.—Red Gats and Disease.
      • Art. LXXII.—National Pensions—a Proposed Scheme.

• New Zealand Institute

  • New Zealand Institute

    • (untitled)

      • Thirtieth Annual Report.
      • New Zealand Institute Accounts For 1897–98.

• Proceedings.

  • Wellington Philosophical Society.

    • First Meeting: 29th June, 1898.

      • New Members of Council Appreciation of the late Mr. Thomas Kirk, F.L.S. Appreciation of the late Mr. William Miles Maskell, F.L.S.
      • Presentations to Colonial Museum described
      • Shore Fishes of Fiji presented
      • Chitons from Lyall Bay presented
      • Siphonaria obliquata presented
      • Lemur (Galago mokoli) from South Africa

    • Second Meeting: 20th July, 1898.

      • Congenital Stigmata, Remarks by Sir J. Hector on Tipulidœ.
      • Remarks on Spider (Salticus).
      • Remarks by Sir J. Hector on Sygnathus pelagicus
      • On Rocks and Minerals from Cape Colville.
      • On a Sea-worm (Echiurus novœ-zealandiœ).
      • On Hatteria (Sphenodon) punctata. Remarks on Emmelichthys nitidus, &c.
      • Hybrid Drake presented
      • Nomination for Election of Governors of New Zealand Institute
      • Appreciation of the late Mr. John Buchanan, F.L.S.
      • Remarks on a section of lizards Remarks on Additions to the Colonial Museum.
      • Remarks on the Kumi.
      • Remarks on Ironsand.
      • Appreciation of the late Mr. Charles Hulke, F.C.S.
      • On the Shooting Stars of November, 1898.
      • On Additions to the Museum.
      • Abstract Of Annual Report.
      • Election of Officers for 1899
      • Appreciation of the late Rev. W. Colenso, F.R.S.
      • On the Rev. W. Colenso's New Zealand Testament.
      • On Sponges from the Chatham Islands.
      • On Stone Implements from Karaka Bay.
      • On New Zealand Moths and Butterflies.

  • Auckland Institute.

    • First Meeting: 30th May, 1898.

      • Auckland City, Past, Present, and to come
      • The Aims of Education.
      • Gold: Its Occurrence and Extraction.
      • Reminiscences of Forty-five Years
      • The Mount Cook District.
      • Social Parasites.
      • Ruskin: His Life and Writings. Appreciation of the late Mr. T. Kirk, F.L.S. Appreciation of the late Mr. F. D. Fenton
      • Abstract Of Annual Report.
      • Election Of Officers For 1899.

  • Philosophical Institute Of Canterbury.

    • First Meeting: 4th May, 1898.

      • Appreciation of the Mr. W. M. Maskell
      • Description of the Vegetable Sheep (Raoulia mamillaris).
      • On New Zealand Lizards, with Young.
      • Exhibit of New Chemical Apparatus.
      • On a Moa-bone from Silt at Port Hills.
      • Some Recent Advances in Experimental Science.
      • On Prehistoric Pottery from Japan. On a Volcanic Bomb.
      • On Naultinus grayi and Young.
      • Hypnotism: Its Fallacies and Facts.
      • On the Cultivation of New Zealand Alpine Plants.
      • Address on the Cell.
      • On Veronica armstrongii.
      • On Scale-insects presented by the late Mr. Maskell.
      • Resolution on Antarctic Exploration
      • On an Albino Skylark.
      • The Microscope in Geology.
      • Appreciation of the late Rev. W. Colenso, F.R.S.
      • Abstract of Annual Report for 1898
      • Election Of Officers For 1899.
      • Electricity in the Service of Technical Chemistry.

  • Otago Institute.

    • First Meeting : 9th May, 1898.

      • Appreciation of the late Mr. Thomas Kirk, F.L.S.
      • On some Peculiar Attachment-discs developed in some Species of Loranthus.
      • On New Zealand Fungi.
      • A list of the described genera and species of New Zealand Flowering-plants.
      • Remarks on a Curious Nest.
      • On Additions to the Museum.
      • Notice of the Discovery of a Live Notornis.
      • Notice of Discovery of a Moa Eggshell.
      • On Relics of the Old Native Population on the Upper Molyneux. On Rare Maori Weapons and Implements.
      • On Nitrogenous Nodules from the Roots of Leguminous Plants.
      • On a Kiwi-feather Mat.
      • Remarks on Mr. A. Hamilton's Work on Maori Art.
      • On the Distribution of Notornis, and General Notes on the Genus.
      • On the Study of Natural History.
      • On the Palolo, a Marine Worm from Fiji.
      • The Art of War as practised in Old New Zealand.
      • On New Nudibranch.
      • On a Maori Chert Quarry.
      • On Specimens of Native Spring Flowers.
      • Remarks on the Recent Discovery of a Notornis.
      • Appreciation of the late Mr. John Buchanan, F.L.S.
      • Abstract Of Annual Report. Notice of the late Right Hon. Sir G. Grey, K.C.B.
      • Remarks on the Proposed Fish-Hatchery at Purakanui.
      • Election Of Officebs For 1899.
      • Address by the President, Mr. F. R. Chapman.
      • List of Plants Supplementary to the Dunedin Field Club'S Catalogue Of Dunedin Plants.
      • List of Fresh-Water Algæ collected

  • Hawke's Bay Philosophical Institute.

    • (untitled)

      • The State in Relation to Public Health.
      • The Comic in Art
      • Exhibits.
      • The Rivers of the Hawke's Bay Plains.
      • The Geological History of the World
      • A Graphic Method of determining Azimuth Altitude and Hour Angle of a Star when at its Greatest Altitude
      • Phrenology
      • Vaccination
      • A. Maori Earthwork Fortification
      • A Maori Stronghold
      • Are they Old Kumera-pits?
      • Prehistoric Man and Evolution
      • Abstract of Annual Report
      • Election Of Officers For 1899.

  • Westland Institute.

    • (untitled)

      • Abstract of Annual Report
      • Election Of Officers For 1899.

  • Nelson Philosophical Society.

    • (untitled)

      • Abstract of Annual Report
      • Election Of Officers For, 1899.
• Appendix
  • Meteorology of New Zealand
    • Comparative Abstract for 1898 and Previous Years.
    • Average Temperature Of Seasons Compared With Those Of The Previous Year.
    • Remarks On The Weather During 1898.
    • Earthquakes Reported In New Zealand during 1898.
    • New Zealand Institute. Honorary Members.
    • 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.