Contents - Volume 27, 1894

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• Transactions of the New Zealand Institute
• (title page)
• Corrigendum.
• Contents.
  • Transactions.
  • New Zealand Institute.
  • Proceedings.
  • Appendix.
• List of Plates.
  • Author.
• 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.
  • List of Incorporated Societies.
  • Officers of Incorporated Societies, and Extracts from the Rules.

• Transactions

  • Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, 1894.

    • I.—Zoology.

      • Art. I.—Synoptical List of Coccidæ reported from Australasia and the Pacific Islands up to December, 1894.
      • Art. II.—Further Coccid Notes: with Description of New Species from New Zealand, Australia, Sandwich Islands, and elsewhere, and Remarks upon many Species already reported.
      • Art. III.—Illustrations of Darwinism; or, The Avifauna of New Zealand considered in relation to the Fundamental Law of Descent with Modification.
      • Art. IV.—Notes on the Ornithology of New Zealand; with an Exhibition of Rare Specimens.
      • Art. V.—On a New Species of Fern-bird (Sphenœacus) from the Snares Islands; with an Exhibition of Specimens.
      • Art. VI.—Notes on the Flightless Duck of the Auckland Islands (Nesonetta aucklandica).
      • Art. VII.—Notes on Phalacrocorax colensoi, of the Auckland Islands, and on Phalacrocorax onslowi, of the Chatham Islands.
      • Art. VIII.—Note on Œstrelata neglecta; with an Exhibition of Specimens.
      • Art. IX.—Some Curiosities of Bird-life.
      • Art. X.—On the Wetas, a Group of Orthopterous Insects inhabiting New Zealand; with Descriptions of Two New Species.
      • Art. Xi.—Observations on some peculiar Maori Remains, with Remarks on the Ancient Institution of Tapu.
      • Art. XII.—Note on the Vegetable Caterpillar (Cordiceps robertsii).
      • Art. XIII.—On the Axial Skeleton in the Dinornithida.
      • Art. Xix.—On the Occurrence of a Pneumatic Foramen in the Femur of a Moa.
      • Art. Xv.—On a New Species of Weta (Locustidae) from Bounty Island.
      • Art. XVI.—On Majaqueus aequinoctialis, from Antipodes Island.
      • Art. XVII.—Notes on New Zealand Land Planarians. Part I.
      • Art. XVIII.—Note on a New Variety of Peripatus novæ-zealandiæ, Hutton.
      • Art. XIX.—Notes on a New Zealand Land Nemertine.
      • Art. XX.—Notes on New Zealand Echinoderms.
      • Art. XXI.—Descriptions of Two New Gymnoblastic Hydroids.
      • Art. XXII.—Notes on some Crustacea from Macquarie Island.
      • Art. XXIII.—On the most frequent Pelagic Copepods and Cladoceres of the Hauraki Gulf.
      • Art. XXIV.—Notes on the Larger Species of Paryphanta in New Zealand, with some Remarks on the Distribution and Dispersal of Land-shells.
      • Art. XXV.—Further Contributions towards a Bibliography of the Dinornithidæ, the Great Extinet Birds of New Zealand, usually called Moas.—Supplement No. 1.
      • Art. XXVI.—On the Feathers of a Small Species of Moa (Megalapteryx) found in a Cave at the Head of the Waikaia River; with a Notice of a Moa-hunter's Camping-place on the Old Man Range.
      • Art. XXVII.—Zoological Notes: (1.) Arboreal Nests of Bushrat (Mus maorium); (2.) Paryphanta hochstetteri found at Low Levels at West Wanganui.
      • Art. XXVIII.—Remarks on the Rats of New Zealand.
      • Art. XXIX.—On the Bird Moa and its Aliases.
      • Art. XXX.—The Kea (Nestor notabilis), a Sheep-eating Parrot.
      • Art. XXXI.—On the Abundance of Vanessa itea in Wellington during Season 1894.
      • Art. XXXII.—A Chapter in the History of the Warfare against Insect-pests.
      • Art. XXXIII.—On the Anatomy of Flight of certain Birds.
      • Art. XXXIV.—Further Contribution to a Knowledge of the New Zealand Sponges.
      • Art. XXXV.—On a New Shell (Anomia walteri).
      • Art. XXXVI.—On some New Species of Tipulæ (Dddy-long legs) found in New Zealand.

    • II.—Botany.

      • Art. XXXVII.—The Algæ of New Zealand: their Characteristics and Distribution.
      • Art. XXXVIII.—On the Preparation and Preservation of Botanical Specimens.
      • Art. XXXXIX.—On New Forms of Celmisia, Cass.
      • Art. XI.—A Revision of the New Zealand Gentians.
      • Art. XLI.—On the New Zealand Species of Gunnera, L.
      • Art. XLII.—Descriptions of New or Remarkable Plants from the Upper Waimakariri.
      • Art. XLIII.—Description of New Grasses from Macquarie Island.
      • Art. XLIV.—A Revision of the New Zealand Species of Colobanthus, Bartling.
      • Art. XLV.—Notes and Reminiscences of Early Crossings of the Romantically – situated Lake Waikaremoana, County of Hawke's Bay, of its Neighbouring Country, and of its Peculiar Botany; performed in the Years 1841 and 1843.
      • Art. XLVI—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. XLVII.—A. Description of two New Ferns and One New Lycopodium, lately detected in our New Zealand Forests.
      • Art. XLVIII.—An Account of the Finding of Two Australian Plants, hitherto unnoticed, here in New Zealand.
      • Art. XLIX.—On New Zealand Mosses.
      • Art. L.—Descriptions of New Native Plants.
      • Art. LI.—On the Presence of some Noxious Weeds in Nelson District.
      • Art. LII.—Botanical Notes: Plants new to Nelson District, & c., from West Wanganui..
      • Art. LIII.—Notes on New Zealand Mosses: Genus Grimmia.
      • Art. LIV.—Notes on New Zealand Mosses: Genus Orthotrichum.
      • Art. LV.—On the Growth of Ferns; and on a New Fern now first reported.

    • III.—Geology.

      • Art. LVI.—On the Hawke's Bay Pleistocene Beds and the Glacial Period.
      • Art. LVII.—On the Occurrence of Moa-footprints in the Bed of the Manawatu River, near Palmerston North.
      • Art. LVIII.—The Nuhaka Hot Springs.

    • IV.—Miscellaneous.

      • Art. LIX.—Magnetization of Iron by High-frequency Discharges.
      • Art. LX.—The Last Glacial Epoch: explained by Major-General Drayson's Discovery of the Second Rotation of the Earth.
      • Art. LXI.—On some Peculiar Cases of the Reflection of Light
      • Art. LXII.—The Immortality of the Cosmos; being an Attempt to show that the Theory of Dissipation of Energy is limited to Finite Portions of Space.
      • Art. LXIII.—Synoptic Statement of the Principles and Phenomena of Cosmic Impact: prepared for the Criticism of Scientific Men and Societies.
      • Art. LXIV.—On an Oversight in Croll's Mode of lengthening the Age of the Sun's Heat.
      • Art. LXV.—Notes on a Visit to Macquarie Island.
      • Art. LXVI.—Myths of Observation.
      • Art. lxvii.—Ceremonial Language.
      • Art. LXVIII.—The Modern History of a Block of Greenstone.
      • Art. LXIX.—Notes on Tombs of a Prehistoric Race of Colombia, South America.
      • Art. LXX.—Maori Preserved Heads.
      • Art. LXXI.—Some Account of the Earliest Literature and Maps relating to New Zealand.

    • I—Zoology [Continued]

      • Art. LXXII.—On a New Species of Ant from New Zealand.

• New Zealand Institute

  • New Zealand Institute.

    • Twenty-sixth Annual Report.
    • Accounts for 1893–94.

• Proceedings

  • Wellington Philosophical Society.

    • First Meeting: 13th June, 1894.
    • Second Meeting: 27th June, 1894.

    • Third Meeting: 11th July, 1894.

      • The Humist Doctrine of Causation in its Relation to Modern Agnosticism.
      • Resolution as to Dr. C. V. Riley
      • On the Milk-supply of Wellington.
      • On a Discovery of Bones of Dinornis giganteus on the surface
      • On a Method of Cure in Germ-diseases.
      • Note on the Aurora Australia, as observed at Karori, Wellington, on the 20th August, 1894.
      • Exhibit of Tuatara (Sphenodon punctatum) and Young.
      • Appendix to Paper on the Glacial Epoch.
      • On a Peculiar Appearance in a Cloud during the Daylight.
      • On Barytet: a Rare Form.
      • Pélé's Hair (Volcanic Glass-fibre).
      • On the Occurrence of a Mineral Belt in the Heart of the great Schist-formation of Otago.
      • On the so-called Vegetable Caterpillar, and other Fungi that attack Insects.
      • On Oyster-culture in New Zealand.
      • Remarks on Paryphanta hochstetteri.
      • Abstract of Annual Report
      • Election of Officers for 1895
      • On the Utilization of Mineral Springs in New Zealand for the Production of Ornamental Objects in Stone.
      • Notes from the Chatham Islands.
      • On a New Fern.
      • On some Living Colonial Rarities.
      • On a Process for coating Non-conducting Substances with Metal.

    • Auckland Institute.

      • The History of Money: Anniversary
      • The Economic Effects of Various Land-tenures.
      • Description of the Carved Maori House at Maketu.
      • The Geology, Resources, and Prospects of the Thames Goldfields.
      • A Greek Madonna.
      • The Treatment of Lunatics, historically considered.
      • Comparative Religion.
      • Poetry considered as an Interpretation of Life.
      • A Yorkshire Blood-feud.
      • Darwin.
      • Shooting-stars and Meteors.
      • A Poet's Socialism.
      • Explosives.
      • Abstract Of Annual Report
      • Election of Officers for 1895.

    • Philosophical Institute of Canterbury.

      • On a Concrete Conception of Angles and Parallels.
      • Modern Views of Protoplasm.
      • On the Conditions of Equilibrium of Free Gaseous Cosmical Bodies under Varying Conditions of Volume, Composition, Temperature, and Mass.
      • Curves of Gravitation.
      • On Disposing Affinity and the Constitution of difficultly-decomposable Cyanides.
      • Note on the Observation of Microseismic Waves.
      • Note on Land Planarians of New Zealand.
      • On Six Pieces of Apparatus to determine experimentally the various Lines of Force upon which Scientific Apparatus is founded.
      • On Molecular Attraction.
      • On the Specific Heat of the Elements, deduced from the Specific Heat of Compound Gases at Constant Volume.
      • On Chlorine as a Cure for Consumption.
      • On Hail.
      • On a Simple Classification of Organic Compounds.
      • On a Simple Method of representing the Graphic Constitution of Organic Bodies.
      • Abstract of the Annual Report.
      • Election of Officers for 1895.

    • Otago Institute.

      • The Appreciation of Gold.
      • On the Characteristics and Life-history of the principal Parasitic Worms infesting Man.
      • On the Structure and Systematic Position of Anaspis.
      • On the Financial Depression, its Cause and Remedy.
      • Remarks on Ethnological Specimens from New Guinea.
      • On some Female Characters in the Plays of Sophocles.
      • On Recent Discoveries at Megalopolis, in Arcadia.
      • Remarks on the Leg-bone of a Megalapteryx.
      • Remarks on Additions to the Museum.
      • Remarks on a Collection of New Zealand Fishes.
      • Abstract of Annual Report.
      • Election of Officers for 1895

    • Westland Institute.

      • Abstract of Annual Report.
      • Election of Officers for 1895

    • Hawke's Bay Philosophical Institute.

      • On Spectacles.
      • Some Curious and Little-known Information and Memoranda relating to Letters and Mails in the Olden Time.
      • On Corals and Coral Islands.
      • Presentation to the Rev. W. Colenso, F.R.S.
      • Abstract of Annual Report
      • Election of Officers for 1895

    • Nelson Philosophical Society.

      • Description of a Journey to Mount Cook.
      • Additions to Museum exhibited
      • Rat's Nest found in a Hedge exhibited
      • Appendix to Notes on Tregear's Maori-Polynesian Dictionary.
      • On the Bacilli of Tetanus.
      • Exhibit of Lizard and its Young (Naultinus elegans)
      • Resolution as to Mr. Atkinson's Notes on Tregear's Maori-Polynesian Dictionary
      • Abstract of Annual Report
      • Election of Officers for 1895
• Appendix
  • Meteorological Statistics for 1894
  • Notes on the Weather in 1894
  • Earthquakes reported in New Zealand during 1894.
  • Honorary Members of the New Zealand Institute
  • Ordinary Members of the New Zealand Institute
  • List of Institutions and Persons To Whom. This Volume is Presented by the Governors of the New Zealand Institute.
  • Index.