Contents - Volume 53, 1921

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

• Notice to Members.
• Memorandum for Authors of Papers.
• (title page)
• Obituary.
  • Sir David Ernest Hutchins, 1850–1920.
  • >Colonel Thomas William Porter, C.B., 1844–1920.
  • Kenneth Wilson, 1842–1920.
• Contents.
• List of Plates.
• New Zealand Institute.
  • Roll of Honour
• Presidential Address.

• Transactions.

  • Transactions of the New Zealand Institute.

    • Art. I.—The Maori Genius for Personification; with Illustrations of Maori Mentality.
    • Art. II.—Old Redoubts, Blockhouses, and Stockades of the Wellington District.
    • Art. III.—The First New Zealand Navy; with some Episodes of the Maori War in connection with the British Navy.
    • Art. IV.—Notes on a Geological Excursion to Lake Tekapo.
    • Art. V.—The Modification of Spur-ends by Glaciation.
    • Art. VI.—Recent Changes in the Terminal Face of the Franz Josef Glacier.
    • Art. VII.—Notes on the Geology of the Patea District.
    • Art. VIII.—The Geological History of Eastern Marlborough.
    • Art. IX.—The Birth and Development of New Zealand.
    • Art. X.—Some Tertiary Mollusca, with Descriptions of New Species.
    • Art. XI.—Fossils from the Paparoa Rapids, on the Wanganui River.
    • Art. XII.—Tertiary Rocks near Hawera.
    • Art. XIII.—Geology of the Waikato Heads District and the Kawa Unconformity.
    • Art. XIV.—Notes on the Geology of Great Barrier Island, New Zealand.
    • Art. XV.—A Conglomerate at Onerahi, near Whangarei, Auckland, New Zealand.
    • Art. XVI.—The Warped Land-surface on the South-eastern Side of the Port Nicholson Depression, Wellington, N.Z.
    • Art. XVII.—Porirua Harbour : a Study of its Shore-line and other Physiographic Features.
    • Art. XVIII.—An Account of the Geology of Green Island Coalfield.
    • Art. XIX.—On an Ice-striated Rock-surface on the Shore of Circle Cove, Lake Manapouri.
    • Art. XX.—Notes on New Zealand Mollusca: No. 1, Descriptions of Three New Species of Polyplacophora, and of Damoniella alpha.
    • Art. XXI.—Notes on New Zealand Mollusca: No. 2.
    • Art. XXII.—Notes on New Zealand Chilopoda.
    • Art. XXIII.—A New Species of Shark.
    • Art. XXIV.—The Leaf-mining Insects of New Zealand: Part II.
    • Art. XXV.—Some New Zealand Amphipoda: No. 2.
    • Art. XXVI.—The Life-history of some New Zealand Insects: No. 1.
    • Art. XXVII.—A Revision of the New Zealand Cicadidae (Homoptera), with Descriptions of New Species.
    • Art. XXVIII.—Bionomic Notes on some New Zealand Spiders, with a Plea for the Validity of the Species Araneus orientalis Urquhart.
    • Art. XXIX.—Notes on the Hemiptera of the Kermadec Islands, with an Addition to the Hemiptera Fauna of the New Zealand Subregion.
    • Art. XXX.—Notes on the Blepharoceridae (Diptera) of New Zealand.
    • Art. XXXI.—Material for a Monograph on the Diptera Fauna of New Zealand: Part II, Family Syrphidae.
    • Art. XXXII.—Notes and Descriptions of New Zealand Lepidoptera.
    • Art. XXXIII.—Notes and Descriptions of New Zealand Lepidoptera.
    • Art. XXXIV.—Description of a New Dragon-fly belonging to the Genus Uropetala Selys.
    • Art. XXXV.—Studies of New Zealand Trichoptera, or Caddis-flies: No. 1, Description of a New Genus and Species belonging to the Family Sericostomatidae.
    • Art. XXXVI.—Descriptions (with Illustrations) of Four Fishes new to New Zealand.
    • Art. XXXVII.—Observations on certain External Parasites found upon the New Zealand Huia (Neomorpha acutirostris Gould) and not previously recorded.
    • Art. XXXVIII.—The Crab-eating Seal in New Zealand.
    • Art. XXXIX.—Variation in Amphineura.
    • Art. XL.—Notes on Specimens of New Zealand Ferns and Floweringplants in London Herbaria.
    • Art. XLI.—Descriptions of New Native Flowering-plants, with a few Notes.
    • Art. XLII.—The Genus Cordyceps in New Zealand.
    • Art. XLIII.—Unrecorded Plant-habitats for the Eastern Botanical District of the South Island of New Zealand.
    • Art. XLIV.—Further Studies on the Prothallus, Embryo, and Young Sporophyte of Tmesipteris.
    • Art. XLV.—New Species of Flowering-plants.
    • Art. XLVI.—New Plant-stations.
    • Art. XLVII.—On Growth-periods of New Zealand Trees, especially Nothofagus fusca and the Totara (Podocarpus totara).
    • Art. XLVIII.—Maori Food-supplies of Lake Rotorua, with Methods of obtaining them, and Usages and Customs appertaining thereto.
    • Art. XLIX.—Maori Decorative Art: No. 1, House-panels (Arapaki, Tuitui, or Tukutuku).
    • Art. L.—An Account of a (supposed Maori) Sharpening-stone.
    • Art. LI.—The Food Values of New Zealand Fish: Part II.
    • Art. LII.—The Chemistry of Flesh Foods.—(5) The Nitrogenous Constituents of Meat-extracts.
    • Art. LIII.—The Anticomplementary Properties observed in certain Serum Reactions.

• Proceedings.

  • Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute.

    • Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the Board of Govenors.

    • Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute Science Congress.

    • Wellington Philosophical Society.
    • Auckland Institute.
    • Philosophical Institute of Canterbury.
    • Otago Institute.
    • Nelson Institute.
    • Manawatu Philosophical Society.
    • Wanganui Philosophical Society.
• Appendix.
  • New Zealand Institute Act, 1908. 1908, No. 130.
  • New Zealand Institute Amendment Act, 1920. 1920, No. 3.
  • Regulations.
  • The Hutton Memorial Medal and Research Fund.
  • Hector Memorial Research Fund.
  • Regulations for Administering the Government Research Grant.
  • Research Grants made during the Year ending 31st March, 1921.
  • The Carter Bequest.
  • New Zealand Institute.
  • Ordinary Members.
• Index.
  • Authors Of Papers.