Contents - Volume 1, 1868

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

• (title page)
• Preface
• Contents.
• Illustrations.
• New Zealand Institute,
  • Board of Governors.
  • Nominated Governors.
  • Manager. James Hector, Esq.
• Rules and Statutes of the New Zealand Institute, Gazetted in the “New Zealand Gazette,” March 9, 1868.
  • Section I.
  • Section II.
  • Section III.
• List of Societies Incorporated with the New Zealand Institute.
• Office Bearers of the Wellington Philosophical Society.
  • Extract from the Laws of the Wellington Philosophical Society.
• Office Bearers of the Auckland Institute.
  • Council.
  • Extract from the Laws of the Auckland Institute.
• Office Bearers of the Philosophical Institute of Canterburg.
  • Council.
  • Extract from the Laws of the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury.
• Office Bearers of the Westland Naturalists' and Acclimatization Society.
  • Committee.
  • Extract from the Laws of the Westland Naturalists' and Acclimatization Society.

• Inaugural Address of Governor Sir George F. Bowen, G.C.M.G., as its First President. Delivered to the Members of the New Zealand Institute, August 4, 1868.

  • Inaugural Address of Governor Sir George Ferguson Bowen, G.C.M.G., to the New Zealand Institute, As its first President. August 4, 1868.
• Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, 1868.
• Proceedings of the Wellington Philosophical Society.
• Proceedings of the Auckland Institute.

• Transactions of the New Zealand Institute. 1868

  • Transactions of the New Zealand Institute.

    • Art. I.—On Boulders and Travelled Blocks, in the Wellington Province.
    • Art. II—On the Measurements of Dinornis Bones, obtained from excavations in a swamp, situated at Glenmark, on the property of Messrs. Kermode and Co., up to February 15, 1868.
    • Art. III—On Hybridization, with reference to variation in Plants.
    • Art. IV.—On the recent Earthquakes and Wave Phenomena observed in New Zealand.
    • Second Communication on the recent Earthquakes and Wave Phenomena.
    • Third Communication on the same subject. [Read by Dr. Hector, October 12, 1868.]
    • Art. V.—On a new mode for the direct Desilvering of Argentiferous Gold.
    • Art. VI.—Notes on Herr Finsch's Review of Mr. Walter Buller's Essay on New Zealand Ornithology. By the Author.
    • Art. VI. A.—Notes on Mr. Walter Buller's “Essay on the Ornithology of New Zealand.”
    • Art. VII.—On the Celtic origin of the English Vowel sounds.
    • Art. VIII.—On the Island of Rapa.
    • Inaugural Address, Delivered to the Members of the Auckland Institute, May 4, 1868.
    • Art. IX—Notes on Plants observed during a visit to the North of Auckland. April, 1868.
    • Art. X.—On the Botany of the Great Barrier Island.
    • Art. XI.—On some Experiments in Hydraulic Mortar, in Auckland.
    • Art. XII.—Notes on the Birds of the Great Barrier Island.
    • Art. XIII.—Notes on the Birds of the Little Barrier Island.
    • Art. XIV.—Notes on the Basin of Te Tarata, Rotomahana.
    • Art. XV.—Description of Arid Island, Hauraki Gulf.
    • Art. XVI.—On the Geology of the Island of Pakihi.
    • Art. XVII.—On the Utilization of the Phormium tenax.
    • Art. XVIII.—On the Chatham Islands.
    • Art. XIX.—Notes on the Rock specimens collected by H. H. Travers, Esq., on the Chatham Islands.
    • Art. XX.—On the present state of Applied Science in the Canterbury Province. An Address delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, November 5, 1866.
    • Art. XXI.—On the Wave Phenomena observed in Lyttelton Harbour, August 15, 1868.
    • Art. XXII.—On the recent Earthquakes on Land and Sea.

• Part III. Essays.

  • On the Geographical Botany of New Zealand. Explanatory of a Series of Essays by Sir David Monro, and Messrs. Travers and Buchanan.
  • On the Leading Features of the Geographical Botany of the Provinces of Nelson and Marlborough, New Zealand.
  • Remarks on a Comparison of the General Features of the Flora of the Provinces of Nelson and Marlborough with that of Canterbury. In a Letter Addressed to Sir David Monro,
  • Sketch of the Botany of Otago,
  • List of all the Flowering Plants Found in Otago; with their Proportionate Geographical Distribution in the Two Botanical Regions of the Eastern and Western Slopes of the Province, as Described by a Line, Extending from the Wanaka Lake, to the “Nuggets” at the Mouth of the Olutha, Along the Course of That River

• On the Ornithology of New Zealand

  • Essay on the Ornithology of New Zealand.

• On the Botany of the North Island of New Zealand.

  • Essay on the Botany, Geographic and Œconomic, of the North Island of the New Zealand Group.
  • Notes.

• On the Cultivation and Acclimatization of Trees and Plants.

  • Essay on the Cultivation and Acclimatization of Trees and Plants..

• On the Geology of the North Island of New Zealand

  • Essay on the Geology of the North Island of New Zealand.

• Short Sketch of the Maori Races.

  • A Short Sketch of The Maori Races.

• On the Maori Races of New Zealand.

  • Analysis
    • I. Physiological.
    • II. Psychological.
    • III. Philological.
    • IV. Palæontological.
    • V. Modern.
    • VI. Future.
  • On the Maori Races of New Zealand.
• Appendix to the Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute
  • Appendix.
    • I. Yield of Gold Throughout the World From the Discovery of America in the year 1492 to the present time.
    • II. The Climate of New Zealand
    • III Members of the New Zealand Institute, 1868.
• Errata and Addenda.