Contents

• HALFTITLETransactions of the New Zealand Institute
• CORRIGENDACorrigenda.
• CONTENTSContents.
• SECTIONNew Zealand Institute.
• SECTIONTransactions
  • SUBSECTIONTransactions of the New Zealand Institute 1895.
    • ARTICLEArt. I.—The Displacement of Species in New Zealand.
    • ARTICLEArt. II.—True Instincts of Animals.
    • ARTICLEArt. III.—The Ancient Tribe Te Panenehu.
    • ARTICLEArt. IV.—The History of Otakanini Pa, Kaipara.
    • ARTICLEArt. V.—Volcanic Activity in Sunday Island in 1814.
    • ARTICLEArt. VI.—On Dusky Sound.
    • ARTICLEArt. VII.—The Ceremony of Rahui.
    • ARTICLEArt. VIII.—The Railway and its Place in Social Economy.
    • ARTICLEArt. IX.—Antarctic Research.
    • ARTICLEArt. X.—A Wellington Weather Prognostic.
    • ARTICLEArt. XI.—The Ultimate Problem of Philosophy.
    • ARTICLEArt. XII.—Memorabilia of certain Animal Prodigies, Native and Foreign, Ancient and Modern.
    • ARTICLEArt. XIII.—Democracy.
    • ARTICLEArt. XIV.—The Training of Teachers for Primary Schools.
    • ARTICLEArt. XV.—Abel Tasman and his Journal.
    • ARTICLEArt. XVI.—On an Account of a Massacre at the Entrance of Dunedin Harbour in the Year - 1817.
    • ARTICLEArt. XVII.—On the Forests of New Zealand.
    • ARTICLEArt. XVIII.—On the Rise and Progress of our Knowledge of the Oceanic Areas.
    • ARTICLEArt. XIX.—A Comparison of the Magnetic Screening produced by Different Metals.
    • ARTICLEArt. XX.—Magnetic Viscosity.
    • ARTICLEArt. XXI.—New Zealand Sponges: Third Paper.
    • ARTICLEArt. XXII.—Notes on New Zealand Land Planarians: Part II.* For Part I. see Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. xxvii., art. xvii.
    • ARTICLEArt. XXIII.—Note on the Discovery of Living Specimens of Geonemertes novæ-zealandiæ.
    • ARTICLEArt. XXIV.—New Zealand Diptera: No. 1.
    • ARTICLEArt. XXV.—New Zealand Diptera: No. 2.—Myceto-philidæ.
    • ARTICLEArt. XXVI.—New Zealand Diptera: No. 3.-Simulidæ.
    • ARTICLEArt. XXVII.—On Dodonidia helmsi, fereday.
    • ARTICLEArt. XXVIII.—Notes on some New Zealand Fishes, with Description of a New Species.
    • ARTICLEArt. XXIX.—Further Contributions to the Molluscan Fauna of New Zealand.
    • ARTICLEArt. XXX.—On a New Species of Deinacrida or Forest-cricket from Nelson.
    • ARTICLEArt. XXXI.—Notes on New Zealand Ornithology, with an Exhibition of Specimens.
    • ARTICLEArt. XXXII.—On the Occurrence of the Nankeen Kestrel of Australia (Cerchneis cenchroides) in New Zealand.
    • ARTICLEArt. XXXIII.—Notes on some Species of New Zealand Birds.
    • ARTICLEArt. XXXIV.—Bird-life on a Run.
    • ARTICLEArt. XXXV.—An Ornithological Note.
    • ARTICLEArt. XXXVI.—Notes on Rare Lepidoptera in Wellington.
    • ARTICLEArt. XXXVII.—On the Unusual Abundance of Certain Species of Plume-moths during the Summer of 1894–95.
    • ARTICLEArt. XXXVIII.—Further Coccid Notes: with Descriptions of New Species, and Discussion of Questions of Interest.
    • ARTICLEArt. XXXIX.—Contributions towards a Monograph of the Aleurodidæ, a Family of Hemiptera-Homoptera.
    • ARTICLEArt. XL.—Zoological Notes, Nelson District.
    • ARTICLEArt. XLI.—Animal and Vegetable Parasites associated with the Production of Neoplasms in Cattle and Sheep.
    • ARTICLEArt. XLII.—Notes on the Cicadidæ of New Zealand.
    • ARTICLEArt. XLIII.—List of New Zealand Hydroida.
    • ARTICLEArt. XLIV.—On the Habits of New Zealand Ants.
    • ARTICLEArt. XLV.—On the Construction of the Comb of the Hive-bee.
    • ARTICLEArt. XLVI.—Notes on MS. Descriptions of Collections made during Captain Cook's First Voyage.
    • ARTICLEArt. XLVII.—Notes on Dactylanthus taylori, Hook. f.
    • ARTICLEArt. XLVIII.—On Zannichellia and Lepilæna in New Zealand.
    • ARTICLEArt. XLIX.—On the Products of a Ballast-heap.
    • ARTICLEArt. L.—Notice of the Occurrence of an Undescribed Palm-lily on the Auckland Peninsula.
    • ARTICLEArt. LI.—A Revision of the New Zealand Species of Hymenanthera, R. Br.
    • ARTICLEArt. LII.—Notes on Certain Veronicas, and Descriptions of New Species.
    • ARTICLEArt. LIII.—New Zealand Musci : Notes on a New Genus.
    • ARTICLEArt. LIV.—On some Additions to the New Zealand Flora.
    • ARTICLEArt. LV.—Botanical Notes, Nelson District.
    • ARTICLEArt. LVI.—Descriptions of Three New Native Plants.
    • ARTICLEArt. LVII.—List of the Flowering Plants indigenous to Otago, with Indications of their Distribution and Range in Alti...
    • ARTICLEArt. LVIII.—Phænogams : A Description of a few more Newly-discovered Indigenous Plants; being a Further Contribution ...
    • ARTICLEArt. LIX.—New Zealand Cryptogams : A List of a Few Additional Cryptogamic Plants, of the Orders Hepaticæ and Fungi, m...
    • ARTICLEArt. LX.—Cryptogams: A Description of Two new Ferns, a New Lycopodium, and a New Moss, lately detected in our New Zea...
    • ARTICLEArt. LXI.—A Description of Three Ferns, believed to be Undescribed, discovered more than Fifty Years ago in the North...
    • ARTICLEArt. LXII.—Note on a Branched Specimen of a Tree-fern (Hemitelia smithii).
    • ARTICLEArt. LXIII.—On Cordiceps robertsii.
    • ARTICLEArt. LXIV.—Notes on some Rocks from the Kermadec Islands.
    • ARTICLEArt. LXV.—On a Deposit of Moa-bones at Kapua.
    • ARTICLEArt. LXVI.—On the Moa-bones from Enfield.
    • ARTICLEArt. LXVII.—On the Discovery of Moa-remains on Riverton Beach.
    • ARTICLEArt. LXVIII.—On the Behaviour of Two Artesian Wells at the Canterbury Museum.
    • ARTICLEArt. LXIX.—On the Affinities of Harpagornis: a Letter to Professor T. Jeffery Parker
    • ARTICLEArt. LXX.—Denudation as a Factor of Geological Time.
    • ARTICLEArt. LXXI.—Ruapehu and the Volcanic Zone in 1895: No. IV.
    • ARTICLEArt. LXXII.—Iron from the Titaniferous Sand of New Zealand.
    • ARTICLEArt. LXXIII.—On the Action of Potassium-Cyanide Solution upon Gold.
    • ARTICLEArt. LXXIV.—Notes on Mr. J. S. Maclaurin's Paper on the Action of Potassium-Cyanide Solutions upon Gold.
• SECTIONNew Zealand Institute.
  • SUBSECTIONNew Zealand Institute
    • ARTICLETwenty-seventh Annual Report.
    • ARTICLENew Zealand Institute Accounts for 1894–95.
• SECTIONProceedings.
  • SUBSECTIONWellington Philosophical Society.
    • ARTICLEOn the Discovery of a New River and Valley in the Vicinity of Milford Sound.
    • ARTICLERemarks on the late Dr. David Lyall, R.N.
    • ARTICLERemarks on Antarctic Research.
    • ARTICLEOn a Cranial Fallacy
    • ARTICLEOn Seasonal Time-adjustment in Countries South of Lat. 30°
    • ARTICLERemarks on an Albino Tui and Naultinus versicolor
    • ARTICLERemarks on Aristotelia racemosa
    • ARTICLERemarks on Drawings of New Zealand Veronicas
    • ARTICLEResolution with regard to the late Professor C. V. Riley
    • ARTICLENote on the Geology of the Outlying Islands of New Zealand
    • ARTICLENote on Double-flowered Columbine
    • ARTICLEElection of Governors of New Zealand Institute
    • ARTICLEDiscussion on the Geology of the Outlying Islands of New Zealand
    • ARTICLEOn a New Species of Luminous Fish (Polyipnus kirkii)
    • ARTICLEOn an Eclipse Phenomenon
    • ARTICLEExhibit of Sketches
    • ARTICLEAbstract of Annual Report.
    • ARTICLEElection of Officers for 1896
    • ARTICLEList of Exhibits
  • SUBSECTIONAuckland Institute.
    • ARTICLELife and Crystals: Anniversary Address
    • ARTICLEOn Argon, the Newly-discovered Constituent of the Air
    • ARTICLESocial Problems: Poverty and Unemployed Labour in Civilised Communities
    • ARTICLEThe Recent Chitral Difficulty, and the Future of the Country between Western Afghanistan and the Indus
    • ARTICLEThe Dawn of the English Drama
    • ARTICLETwo Coming Eclipses
    • ARTICLEBrowning's Vision of Life
    • ARTICLEArt and Photography
    • ARTICLEAbstract of Annual Report.
    • ARTICLEElection of Officers for 1896
  • SUBSECTIONPhilosophical Institute of Canterbury.
    • ARTICLEPeriodimeter, for measuring Periods of Rapidly-oscillating Currents
    • ARTICLENote of Occurrence of Mus rattus at Opawa
    • ARTICLEOn the Dicraniums of New Zealand
    • ARTICLEAbstract OF Annual Report.
    • ARTICLEElection of Officers for 1896
    • ARTICLEExhibit of Nests and Young of the Katipo
    • ARTICLEOn the Holothurians of New Zealand
  • SUBSECTIONOtago Institute.
    • ARTICLEExhibit of New Zealand Passion-flower
    • ARTICLERemarks on an Egg of Megapodius pritchardi
    • ARTICLEOn a Method of Colour-mixing
    • ARTICLEOn the Etymology of the word “Penguin.”
    • ARTICLENatural History: Notes of a Trip in the “Hinemoa.”
    • ARTICLENotice of a Catalogue of Flowering-plants found near Dunedin
    • ARTICLEOn the Anti-toxin Treatment of Diphtheria
    • ARTICLEProfessor Huxley, from the Point of View of a Disciple
    • ARTICLERemarks on an Arrow-head Worm (Spadella) from New Zealand Waters
    • ARTICLEOn New Zealand Fisheries, and the Desirability of introducing New Species of Fish
    • ARTICLEAbstract of Annual Report.
    • ARTICLEElection of Officers for 1896
    • ARTICLEResolution regarding Dr. J. Murray completing the “Challenger” Reports
  • SUBSECTIONHawke's Bay Philosophical Institute.
    • ARTICLEAnniversary Address
    • ARTICLEThe Zoda or Thodawar Tribe of Madras, and their Funeral Customs
    • ARTICLEBimetallism
    • ARTICLEReminiscences of the Tin-mines of Cornwall Seventy Years Ago
    • ARTICLEThe Coinage of England under Charles I.
    • ARTICLENative Names of Places
    • ARTICLEOn University Extension in New Zealand
    • ARTICLEOn Pond Spiders
    • ARTICLEA Hunting Spider
    • ARTICLERats nesting in Trees
    • ARTICLEThe Moa and the Maoris
    • ARTICLEOn Antarctic Exploration
    • ARTICLEAbstract of Annual Report.
    • ARTICLEElection of Officers for 1896
  • SUBSECTIONNelson Philosophical Society.
    • ARTICLEOn the Anti-toxin Treatment of Diphtheria
    • ARTICLEList of Exhibits
    • ARTICLEAbstract of Annual Report.
    • ARTICLEElection of Officers for 1896
    • ARTICLERemarks on the Government of the New Zealand Institute
    • ARTICLEList of Exhibits
• APPENDIXAppendix.
  • ARTICLEMeteorology.
  • ARTICLERemarks on the Weather During 1895.
  • ARTICLEEarthquakes reported in New Zealand during 1895
  • ARTICLEHonorary Members of the New Zealand Institute
  • ARTICLEOrdinary Members
  • ARTICLEList of Institutions and Persons to Whom This Volume is Presented by the Governors of the New Zealand Institute.
• INDEXIndex.

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