Contents - Volume 20, 1887

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

• (title page)
• Errata.
• Addendum.
• 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, 1887.

    • I.—Zoology.

      • Art. I.—On the Freshwater Infusoria of the Wellington District.
      • Art. II.—On a Specimen of Regalecus recently Stranded in Otago Harbour.
      • Art. III.—Ornithological Notes.
      • Art. IV.—On a curious Parasite (Anthosoma smithii, Leach) from the Porbeagle Shark (Lamna cornubica).
      • Art. V.—On the Occurrence of the Masked Plover (Lobivanellus personatus, Gould) in New Zealand.
      • Art. VI.—Brief Description of a new Species of large Decapod (Architeuthis longimanus).
      • Art. VII.—Note on the Female of Anas boschas assuming the Plumage of the Male.
      • Art. VIII.—A Description of a new Species of Coccinella found in New Zealand.
      • Art. IX.—Note on the Rat that invaded Picton in March, 1884.
      • Art. X.—Description of a new Land Shell, from the Province of Nelson.

    • Paryphanta lignaria, sp. nov.

      • Art. XI.—Supplement to a Monograph of New Zealand Noctuina.
      • Art. XII.—Notes on New Zealand Geometrina.
      • Art. XIII.—Notes on New Zealand Pyralidina.
      • Art. XIV.—Notes on New Zealand Tortricina.
      • Art. XV.—Descriptions of New Zealand Tineina.
      • Art. XVI.—On Henops brunneus, Hutton.
      • Art. XVII.—On new Species of Araneidea.
      • Art. XVIII.—Notes on Rats.
      • Art. XIX.—List of Fishes found round the Mokohinou Islands; their Spawning Time; and Observations regarding some of the Species.
      • Art. XX.—Descriptions of new Species of New Zealand Araneæ.
      • Art. XXI.—Notes on Amaurobioides maritima, Cambridge.

    • II.—Botany.

      • Art. XXII.—Notes on the Three Kings Islands.
      • Art. XXIII.—On the flora of the Kermadec Islands; with Notes on the Fauna.
      • Art. XXIV.—On the Naturalized Dodders and Broom-rapes of New Zealand.
      • Art. XXV.—Description of a new Species of Uncinia, Persoon.
      • Art. XXVI.—Rate of Growth of Transplanted Trees.
      • Art. XXVII.—On new Phœnogamic Plants of New Zealand.
      • Art. XXVIII.—On newly-discovered and imperfectly-known Ferns of New Zealand, with Critical Observations.
      • Art. XXIX.—On new Indigenous Cryptogams, of the Orders Lycopodiaceæ, Musci, and Hepaticæ.
      • Art. XXX.—Botanical Notes.

    • III.—Geology.

      • Art. XXXI.—On some Railway Cutting in the Weka Pass.
      • Art. XXXII.—On the Greensands of the Waihao Forks.
      • Art. XXXIII.—On some Fossils lately obtained from the Cobden Limestone at Greymouth.
      • Art. XXXIV.—On some Ancient Rhyolites from the Mataura District.
      • Art. XXXV.—On a Leucophyre from the Selwyn Gorge.
      • Art. XXXVI.—On the Oxford Chalk Deposit, Canterbury, New Zealand.
      • Art. XXXVII.—The Tarawera Eruption, 10th June, 1886.—A Criticism of Professor Hutton's (and others') Explanations of the Causes of the Eruption.
      • Art. XXXVIII.—On the Artesian Well System of Hawke's Bay.
      • Art. XXXIX.—Pumice: Its Geological Distribution on the East Coast of the North Island of New Zealand, extending from Tologa Bay (38° 20′ S. lat.) to Cape Turnagain (40° 30′ S.).
      • Art. XL.—Notes on the Volcanic Rocks of the Taupo District and King Country.
      • Art. XLI.—Notes on the Rocks of the Kermadec Islands.
      • Art. XLII.—Notes on the Physiography and Geology of the King Country.
      • Art. XLIII.—Geological Notes on the Kermadec Group
      • Art. XLIV.—Minerals at Nelson.

    • IV.—Miscellaneous.

      • Art. XLV.—Ancient Alphabets in Polynesia.
      • Art. XLVI.—Polynesian Folk-lore.—Part II.: The Origin of Fire.
      • Art. XLVII.—The Aryo-Semitic Maori. [A Reply.]
      • Art. XLVIII.—On Maori Ancestry.
      • Art. XLIX.—Ancient Tide-lore, and Tales of the Sea, from the two Ends of the World.
      • Art. L.—Notes on the Derelict Ship in Facile Harbour, Dusky Bay.
      • Art. LI.—On a Stereoscopic Aspect of the Moon.
      • Art. LII.—On the Etymology of the Word “Dierectus,” in Plautus.

• New Zealand Institute.

  • New Zealand Institute.

    • Nineteenth Annual Report, 1886–87.
    • New Zealand Institute Account, 1886–87.

• Proceedings.

  • Wellington Philosophical Society.

    • First Meeting: 15th June, 1887. Sir James Hector in the chair.

      • Anniversary Address.
      • Abstract.
      • Geological Specimens exhibited
    • Second Meeting: 6th July, 1887. Dr. Hutchinson, President, in the chair.

    • Third Meeting: 10th August, 1887. Dr. Hutchinson, President, in the chair.

      • Notes on Forestry.
      • Recent Explorations North of Chalky Sound, West Coast of Otago.
      • Exploration of Dusky Sound
      • On the Occurrence of Black Sulphur in the Native State.
      • Remarks on Specimens collected by Professor Hutton from the Auriferous Deposit at Te Aroha
      • Exhibit of live Helices

    • Fourth Meeting: 24th August, 1867. Dr. Hutchinson, President, in the chair.

      • On the Importance of Tide-gauges, and Description of a simple Tide-gauge invented by the Author
      • Extraordinary Discovery regarding Generation in Insects.
      • Exhibit, illustrative of Propagation of Algæ
      • Exhibit of a rare Diatom (Stauroneis fulmen)
      • Exhibit of Photograph of Prismatic Solar Spectrum on a Chlorophyl plate

    • Fifth Meeting: 14th September, 1887. Dr. Hutchinson, President, in the chair.

      • Remarks on a Collection of Rocks from the Kermadec Islands, made by Captain Fairchild.
      • On a small-sized Specimen of the Hapuka, Hectoria (Oligorus) gigas, Castelneau, caught in Wellington Harbour.
      • Notice of a Giant Sun-fish (Orthagoriscus mola) cast ashore at Cape Campbell.
      • Barbados, our earliest tropical Colony. By the Hon.

    • Sixth Meeting: 5th October, 1887. Dr. Hutchinson, President, in the chair.

      • On some deep-seated Fallacies

    • Seventh Meeting: 19th October, 1887. Dr. Hutchinson, President, in the chair.

      • Notice of a Discovery of Illuminating Gas.

    • Eighth Meeting: 17th November, 1887. Dr. Hutchinson, President, in the chair.

      • On the Korotangi, or Stone Bird.
      • On Red Deer and their Ways.
      • On Earthquakes in New Zealand.
    • Ninth Meeting: 30th November, 1887. Dr. Hutchinson, President, in the chair.

    • Tenth Meeting: 11th January, 1888. Dr. Hutchinson, President, in the chair.

      • Probable Discovery of the Physical Causation of Gravitation.
      • On the Occurrence of Bismuthic Gold at the Owen Goldfields.
      • On the General Association of Grains of Gold with Native Copper.
      • On the Formation of Bismuthic Iodides of the Alkaloids.
      • Complimentary Resolution to the President, Dr. Hutchinson

    • Annual Meeting: 18th February, 1888. W. T. L. Travers, F.L.S., in the chair.

      • Annual Report and Accounts
      • Election of Officers

    • General Meeting.

      • Some Moot Points in Mental Science.
      • On the Occurrence of Morchella esculenta.
      • On the Hessian Fly.
      • On Bladder Fluke in Rabbits.

  • Auckland Institute.

    • First Meeting, 6th June, 1887. Professor A. P. Thomas, President, in the chair.

    • Second Meeting: 4th July, 1887. Professor A. P. Thomas, President, in the chair.

      • Description of a Collection of Maori Articles bequeathed to the Museum by Mr. C. O. Davis.
      • On two new Species of Metaglymma.
      • New Experiments on the Nature of Colour.

    • Popular Lecture: 18th July, 1887. Professor A. P. Thomas, President, in the chair.

      • Pauperizing the People.

    • Popular Lecture: 15th August, 1887. Professor A. P. Thomas, President, in the chair.

      • The Extraction of Metals from their Ores.

    • Third Meeting: 29th August, 1887 Professor A. P. Thomas, President, in the chair.

      • Notes on Hot Springs at Great Barrier Island.
      • On the Nature of Government, with Special Reference to Property in Land.

    • Popular Lecture: 12th September, 1887. Professor A. P. Thomas, President, in the chair.

      • Foods and Beverages.

    • Fourth Meeting: 3rd October, 1887. Professor A. P. Thomas, President, in the chair.

      • New Genera and Species of Plant-eating Coleoptera.
      • Personal Representation: a Modification of Hare's System.

    • Popular Lecture: 17th October, 1887. Professor A. P. Thomas, President, in the chair.

      • Brains and Character.

    • Fifth Meeting: 31st October, 1887. Professor A. P. Thomas, President, in the chair.

      • New Species of Silphidœ.
      • On the Age of the Deposits in Kent's Cavern, as an Index of the Age of Ethnological and Zoological Remains.
      • The Whence of the Maori.

    • Sixth Meeting: 14th November, 1887. Professor A. P. Thomas, President, in the chair.

      • New Species of Pselaphidœ.

    • Annual General Meeting: 20th February, 1888. Professor A. P. Thomas, F.L.S., in the chair.

      • Abstract of Annual Report.
      • Election of Officers for 1888

  • Philosophical Institute of Canterbury.

    • First Meeting: 5th May, 1887. Mr. G. Hogben, M.A., President, in the chair.

      • Election of a Councillor
      • Note on two Volcanic Rocks from near Westport.
    • Second Meeting: 2nd June, 1887. Mr. G. Hogben, M.A., President, in the chair.

    • Third Meeting: 7th July, 1887. Mr. G. Hogben, M.A., President, in the chair.

      • On Reason and Instinct.

    • Fourth Meeting: 4th August, 1887. Mr. G. Hogben, M.A., President, in the chair.

      • On Lord Shaftesbury's “Inquiry into Virtue” and the Utilitarian Theory of Morals.
    • Fifth Meeting: 1st September, 1887. Mr. G. Hogben, M.A., President, in the chair.

    • Sixth Meeting: 6th October, 1887. Mr. R. W. Fereday in the chair.

      • On a Theory of Bird-flight.

    • Annual Meeting: 3rd November, 1888. Mr. G. Hogben, M.A., President, in the chair.

      • Abstract.
      • Election of Officers for 1888
      • Address In Memoriam Sir Julius von Haast.

  • Otago Institute.

    • First Meeting: 10th May, 1887.

    • Second Meeting: 14th June, 1887. F. R. Chapman, President, in the chair.

      • Description of a new Rowing Apparatus.
      • On the Middle Voice in the Latin Verb.

    • Third Meeting:—12th July, 1887. F. R. Chapman, President, in the chair.

      • Notes of an Expedition to the Big Bay District.
      • On Haworth's Patent Safety Cage.
      • An Account of Recent Researches on the Pineal Gland and the Median Eye of Vertebrates.

    • Fourth Meeting: 9th August, 1887. F. R. Chapman, President, in the chair.

      • The History of the Otago Settlement.
    • Fifth Meeting: 15th September, 1887. F. R. Chapman, President, in the chair.

    • Sixth Meeting: 14th October, 1887. F. R. Chapman, President, in the chair.

      • The Theatre of the Greeks.

    • Annual General Meeting: 8th November, 1887. F. R. Chapman, President, in the chair.

      • Notes on New Zealand Crustacea.
      • Notes on Additions to the Museum.
      • Abstract of Annual Report.
      • Election of Officers for 1888
      • Address by the President

  • Westland Institute

    • Abstract of Annual Report.
    • Election of Officers for 1887–88

  • Hawke's Bay Philosophical Institute.

    • First Meeting: 9th May, 1887. The President, J. Goodall, in the chair.

      • Notes on a Collection of Mineral Ores.
    • Second Meeting: 13th June, 1887. The President, J. Goodall, in the chair.
    • Third Meeting: 11th July, 1887. The President, J. Goodall, in the chair.

    • Fourth Meeting: 15th August, 1887. The President, J. Goodall, in the chair.

      • Notes on Exhibits.

    • Fifth Meeting: 12th September, 1887. The President, J. Goodall, in the chair.

      • On Olfactory Physics.

    • Sixth Meeting: 19th October, 1888. The President, J. Goodall, in the chair.

      • A Jubilee Paper; or, Fifty Years in New Zealand.
      • On some Marine Invertebrates of Hawke's Bay.

    • Seventh Meeting: 14th November, 1887. The President, J. Goodall, in the chair.

      • Notes on Additions to the Museum.
      • Election of Officers for 1888

  • Southland Institute.

    • First Meeting, 31st May, 1887. Ven. Archdeacon Stocker, President, in the chair.

    • Second Meeting: 28th June, 1887. Ven. Archdeacon Stocker, President, in the chair.

      • On the Structure of Matter.

    • Third Meeting: 8th November, 1887. Ven. Archdeacon Stocker, President, in the chair.

      • On the Tarawera Eruption.

  • Nelson Philosophical Society.

    • 4th April, 1887. J. Meeson, B.A., President, in the chair.

      • Notes on Exhibits.
      • On a new Species of Dodder.
      • A few Suggestions on Matter and Energy.

    • Council Meeting: 21st April, 1887. J. Meeson, B.A., President, in the chair.

      • Resolution to form a School of Mines

    • 2nd May, 1887. J. Meeson, B.A., President, in the chair.

      • Notes on Natural History.
      • On a recent Ascent of Mount Arthur and Mount Peel.

    • 6th June, 1887.

      • Measurable Vibrations in Fluids, as suggestive of those only conceivable in Ether.
    • Council Meeting: 4th July, 1887. J. Meeson, B.A., President, in the chair.

    • 4th July, 1887. J. Meeson, B.A., President, in the chair.

      • On Yeast.

    • 1st August, 1887. J. Meeson, B.A., President, in the chair.

      • Presentation to Museum
      • Notes of a Visit to the District affected by the Volcanic Eruption of 1886.

    • 5th September, 1887. A. S. Atkinson, Vice-President, in the chair.

      • The Genesis of Genius.

    • Annual Meeting: 4th October, 1887.

      • On a living Specimen of Lamprey.
      • On some curious Carvings on a Rock at Chatham Island.
      • Abstract of Report.
      • Election of Officers for 1887–88
      • Address by the President
    • Council Meeting, 5th December, 1887. Dr. Boor, President, in the chair.

    • 5th December, 1887. Dr. Boor, President, in the chair.

      • A Few Experiences of Fijian Life.
    • Council Meeting: 26th December, 1887. Dr. Boor, President, in the chair.
    • Council Meeting: 27th January, 1888.

    • 6th February, 1888. Dr. Boor, President, in the chair.

      • On Graptolitidœ.
• Appendix..
  • Metorology.
  • Average Temperature of Seasons, compared with those of the previous Year.
  • Notes on the Weather During 1887.
  • Earthquakes reported in New Zealand during 1887.
  • New Zealand Institute.
    • Honorary Members.
    • Ordinary Members.
  • List of Institutions and Individuals to whom This Volume is Presented by the Governors of the New Zealand Institute.
• Index.