Contents

• ERRATAErrata.
• ADDENDUMAddendum.
• CONTENTSContents.
• PLATESList of Plates.
• SECTIONNew Zealand Institute.
• SECTIONTransactions.
  • SUBSECTIONTransactions of the New Zealand Institute, 1887.
    • ARTICLEArt. I.—On the Freshwater Infusoria of the Wellington District.
    • ARTICLEArt. II.—On a Specimen of Regalecus recently Stranded in Otago Harbour.
    • ARTICLEArt. III.—Ornithological Notes.
    • ARTICLEArt. IV.—On a curious Parasite (Anthosoma smithii, Leach) from the Porbeagle Shark (Lamna cornubica).
    • ARTICLEArt. V.—On the Occurrence of the Masked Plover (Lobivanellus personatus, Gould) in New Zealand.
    • ARTICLEArt. VI.—Brief Description of a new Species of large Decapod (Architeuthis longimanus).
    • ARTICLEArt. VII.—Note on the Female of Anas boschas assuming the Plumage of the Male.
    • ARTICLEArt. VIII.—A Description of a new Species of Coccinella found in New Zealand.
    • ARTICLEArt. IX.—Note on the Rat that invaded Picton in March, 1884.
    • ARTICLEArt. X.—Description of a new Land Shell, from the Province of Nelson.
    • ARTICLEArt. XI.—Supplement to a Monograph of New Zealand Noctuina.
    • ARTICLEArt. XII.—Notes on New Zealand Geometrina.
    • ARTICLEArt. XIII.—Notes on New Zealand Pyralidina.
    • ARTICLEArt. XIV.—Notes on New Zealand Tortricina.
    • ARTICLEArt. XV.—Descriptions of New Zealand Tineina.
    • ARTICLEArt. XVI.—On Henops brunneus, Hutton.
    • ARTICLEArt. XVII.—On new Species of Araneidea.
    • ARTICLEArt. XVIII.—Notes on Rats.
    • ARTICLEArt. XIX.—List of Fishes found round the Mokohinou Islands; their Spawning Time; and Observations regarding some of t...
    • ARTICLEArt. XX.—Descriptions of new Species of New Zealand Araneæ.
    • ARTICLEArt. XXI.—Notes on Amaurobioides maritima, Cambridge.* Proc. Zool. Soc., June, 1883, PI. xxxvi., fig. 3.
    • ARTICLEArt. XXII.—Notes on the Three Kings Islands.
    • ARTICLEArt. XXIII.—On the flora of the Kermadec Islands; with Notes on the Fauna.
    • ARTICLEArt. XXIV.—On the Naturalized Dodders and Broom-rapes of New Zealand.
    • ARTICLEArt. XXV.—Description of a new Species of Uncinia, Persoon.
    • ARTICLEArt. XXVI.—Rate of Growth of Transplanted Trees.
    • ARTICLEArt. XXVII.—On new Phœnogamic Plants of New Zealand.* Mounted specimens of the plants herein described were exhibited...
    • ARTICLEArt. XXVIII.—On newly-discovered and imperfectly-known Ferns of New Zealand, with Critical Observations.
    • ARTICLEArt. XXIX.—On new Indigenous Cryptogams, of the Orders Lycopodiaceæ, Musci, and Hepaticæ.
    • ARTICLEArt. XXX.—Botanical Notes.
    • ARTICLEArt. XXXI.—On some Railway Cutting in the Weka Pass.
    • ARTICLEArt. XXXII.—On the Greensands of the Waihao Forks.
    • ARTICLEArt. XXXIII.—On some Fossils lately obtained from the Cobden Limestone at Greymouth.
    • ARTICLEArt. XXXIV.—On some Ancient Rhyolites from the Mataura District.
    • ARTICLEArt. XXXV.—On a Leucophyre from the Selwyn Gorge.
    • ARTICLEArt. XXXVI.—On the Oxford Chalk Deposit, Canterbury, New Zealand.
    • ARTICLEArt. XXXVII.—The Tarawera Eruption, 10th June, 1886.—A Criticism of Professor Hutton's (and others') Explanations of ...
    • ARTICLEArt. XXXVIII.—On the Artesian Well System of Hawke's Bay.
    • ARTICLEArt. XXXIX.—Pumice: Its Geological Distribution on the East Coast of the North Island of New Zealand, extending from ...
    • ARTICLEArt. XL.—Notes on the Volcanic Rocks of the Taupo District and King Country.
    • ARTICLEArt. XLI.—Notes on the Rocks of the Kermadec Islands.
    • ARTICLEArt. XLII.—Notes on the Physiography and Geology of the King Country.
    • ARTICLEArt. XLIII.—Geological Notes on the Kermadec Group
    • ARTICLEArt. XLIV.—Minerals at Nelson.
    • ARTICLEArt. XLV.—Ancient Alphabets in Polynesia.
    • ARTICLEArt. XLVI.—Polynesian Folk-lore.—Part II.: The Origin of Fire.
    • ARTICLEArt. XLVII.—The Aryo-Semitic Maori. [A Reply.]
    • ARTICLEArt. XLVIII.—On Maori Ancestry.
    • ARTICLEArt. XLIX.—Ancient Tide-lore, and Tales of the Sea, from the two Ends of the World.
    • ARTICLEArt. L.—Notes on the Derelict Ship in Facile Harbour, Dusky Bay.
    • ARTICLEArt. LI.—On a Stereoscopic Aspect of the Moon.
    • ARTICLEArt. LII.—On the Etymology of the Word “Dierectus,” in Plautus.
• SECTIONNew Zealand Institute.
  • SUBSECTIONNew Zealand Institute.
    • ARTICLENineteenth Annual Report, 1886–87.
    • ARTICLENew Zealand Institute Account, 1886–87.
• SUBSECTIONWellington Philosophical Society.
  • ARTICLEAnniversary Address.
  • ARTICLEGeological Specimens exhibited
  • ARTICLENotes on Forestry.
  • ARTICLERecent Explorations North of Chalky Sound, West Coast of Otago.
  • ARTICLEExploration of Dusky Sound
  • ARTICLEOn the Occurrence of Black Sulphur in the Native State.
  • ARTICLERemarks on Specimens collected by Professor Hutton from the Auriferous Deposit at Te Aroha
  • ARTICLEExhibit of live Helices
  • ARTICLEOn the Importance of Tide-gauges, and Description of a simple Tide-gauge invented by the Author
  • ARTICLEExtraordinary Discovery regarding Generation in Insects.
  • ARTICLEExhibit, illustrative of Propagation of Algæ
  • ARTICLEExhibit of a rare Diatom (Stauroneis fulmen)
  • ARTICLEExhibit of Photograph of Prismatic Solar Spectrum on a Chlorophyl plate
  • ARTICLERemarks on a Collection of Rocks from the Kermadec Islands, made by Captain Fairchild.
  • ARTICLEOn a small-sized Specimen of the Hapuka, Hectoria (Oligorus) gigas, Castelneau, caught in Wellington Harbour.
  • ARTICLENotice of a Giant Sun-fish (Orthagoriscus mola) cast ashore at Cape Campbell.
  • ARTICLEBarbados, our earliest tropical Colony. By the Hon.
  • ARTICLEOn some deep-seated Fallacies
  • ARTICLENotice of a Discovery of Illuminating Gas.
  • ARTICLEOn the Korotangi, or Stone Bird.
  • ARTICLEOn Red Deer and their Ways.
  • ARTICLEOn Earthquakes in New Zealand.
  • ARTICLEProbable Discovery of the Physical Causation of Gravitation.
  • ARTICLEOn the Occurrence of Bismuthic Gold at the Owen Goldfields.
  • ARTICLEOn the General Association of Grains of Gold with Native Copper.
  • ARTICLEOn the Formation of Bismuthic Iodides of the Alkaloids.
  • ARTICLEComplimentary Resolution to the President, Dr. Hutchinson
  • ARTICLEAnnual Report and Accounts
  • ARTICLEElection of Officers
  • ARTICLESome Moot Points in Mental Science.
  • ARTICLEOn the Occurrence of Morchella esculenta.
  • ARTICLEOn the Hessian Fly.
  • ARTICLEOn Bladder Fluke in Rabbits.
• SUBSECTIONAuckland Institute.
  • ARTICLEDescription of a Collection of Maori Articles bequeathed to the Museum by Mr. C. O. Davis.
  • ARTICLEOn two new Species of Metaglymma.
  • ARTICLENew Experiments on the Nature of Colour.
  • ARTICLEPauperizing the People.
  • ARTICLEThe Extraction of Metals from their Ores.
  • ARTICLENotes on Hot Springs at Great Barrier Island.
  • ARTICLEOn the Nature of Government, with Special Reference to Property in Land.
  • ARTICLEFoods and Beverages.
  • ARTICLENew Genera and Species of Plant-eating Coleoptera.
  • ARTICLEPersonal Representation: a Modification of Hare's System.
  • ARTICLEBrains and Character.
  • ARTICLENew Species of Silphidœ.
  • ARTICLEOn the Age of the Deposits in Kent's Cavern, as an Index of the Age of Ethnological and Zoological Remains.
  • ARTICLEThe Whence of the Maori.
  • ARTICLENew Species of Pselaphidœ.
  • ARTICLEAbstract of Annual Report.
  • ARTICLEElection of Officers for 1888
• SUBSECTIONPhilosophical Institute of Canterbury.
  • ARTICLEElection of a Councillor
  • ARTICLENote on two Volcanic Rocks from near Westport.
  • ARTICLEOn Reason and Instinct.
  • ARTICLEOn Lord Shaftesbury's “Inquiry into Virtue” and the Utilitarian Theory of Morals.
  • ARTICLEOn a Theory of Bird-flight.
  • ARTICLEAbstract.
  • ARTICLEElection of Officers for 1888
  • ARTICLEAddress In Memoriam Sir Julius von Haast.
• SUBSECTIONOtago Institute.
  • ARTICLEDescription of a new Rowing Apparatus.
  • ARTICLEOn the Middle Voice in the Latin Verb.
  • ARTICLENotes of an Expedition to the Big Bay District.
  • ARTICLEOn Haworth's Patent Safety Cage.
  • ARTICLEAn Account of Recent Researches on the Pineal Gland and the Median Eye of Vertebrates.
  • ARTICLEThe History of the Otago Settlement.
  • ARTICLEThe Theatre of the Greeks.
  • ARTICLENotes on New Zealand Crustacea.
  • ARTICLENotes on Additions to the Museum.
  • ARTICLEAbstract of Annual Report.
  • ARTICLEElection of Officers for 1888
  • ARTICLEAddress by the President
• SUBSECTIONWestland Institute
  • ARTICLEAbstract of Annual Report.
  • ARTICLEElection of Officers for 1887–88
• SUBSECTIONHawke's Bay Philosophical Institute.
  • ARTICLENotes on a Collection of Mineral Ores.
  • ARTICLENotes on Exhibits.
  • ARTICLEOn Olfactory Physics.
  • ARTICLEA Jubilee Paper; or, Fifty Years in New Zealand.
  • ARTICLEOn some Marine Invertebrates of Hawke's Bay.
  • ARTICLENotes on Additions to the Museum.
  • ARTICLEElection of Officers for 1888
• SUBSECTIONSouthland Institute.
  • ARTICLEOn the Structure of Matter.
  • ARTICLEOn the Tarawera Eruption.
• SUBSECTIONNelson Philosophical Society.
  • ARTICLENotes on Exhibits.
  • ARTICLEOn a new Species of Dodder.
  • ARTICLEA few Suggestions on Matter and Energy.
  • ARTICLEResolution to form a School of Mines
  • ARTICLENotes on Natural History.
  • ARTICLEOn a recent Ascent of Mount Arthur and Mount Peel.
  • ARTICLEMeasurable Vibrations in Fluids, as suggestive of those only conceivable in Ether.
  • ARTICLEOn Yeast.
  • ARTICLEPresentation to Museum
  • ARTICLENotes of a Visit to the District affected by the Volcanic Eruption of 1886.
  • ARTICLEThe Genesis of Genius.
  • ARTICLEOn a living Specimen of Lamprey.
  • ARTICLEOn some curious Carvings on a Rock at Chatham Island.
  • ARTICLEAbstract of Report.
  • ARTICLEElection of Officers for 1887–88
  • ARTICLEAddress by the President
  • ARTICLEA Few Experiences of Fijian Life.
  • ARTICLEOn Graptolitidœ.
• APPENDIXAppendix..
  • ARTICLEMetorology.
  • SECTIONAverage Temperature of Seasons, compared with those of the previous Year.
  • ARTICLENotes on the Weather During 1887.
  • ARTICLEEarthquakes reported in New Zealand during 1887.
  • SECTIONNew Zealand Institute.
    • ARTICLEHonorary Members.
    • ARTICLEOrdinary Members.
  • ARTICLEList of Institutions and Individuals to whom This Volume is Presented by the Governors of the New Zealand Institute.
• ARTICLEIndex.

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