Contents - Volume 33, 1900

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

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• (title page)
• Corrigenda.
• Contents.
• List of Plates. [Note.—These are placed at the end of the volume.]
• New Zealand Institute.
  • Board of Governors.
  • Abstracts of Rules and Statutes.
  • Roll of Incorporated Societies
  • Officers of Incorporated Societies, and Extracts From the Rules.
    • Wellington Philosophical Society.
    • Auckland Institute.
    • Philosophical Institute of Canterbury.
    • Otago Institute.
    • Westland Institute.
    • Hawke's Bay Philosophical Institute.
    • Southland Institute.
    • Nelson Philosophical Society.

• Transactions

  • Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, 1900.

    • I.—Zoology.

      • Art. I.—Synopsis of the Diptera brachycera of New Zealand.
      • Art. II.—Note on Chrysophanus feredayi.
      • Art. III.—Note on the Distribution of some Australasian Collembola.
      • Art. IV.—On a New Zealand Fresh-water Leech (Glossiphonia (Clepsine) novæ-zealandiæ, n. sp.).
      • Art. V.—On a Collection of Hymenoptera made in the Neighbourhood of Wellington by Mr. G. V. Hudson, with Descriptions of New Genera and Species.
      • Art. VI.—On the New Zealand Lancelet.
      • Art. VII.—An Account of Acanthodrilus uliginosus, Hutton.
      • Art. VIII.—On some Earthworms from the Islands around New Zealand.
      • Art. IX.—Life-history of Plutella cruciferarum, Zeller.
      • Art. X. —Description of the Caterpillar of Epirranthis alectoraria.
      • Art. XI.—Notes on New Zealand Ephemeridæ.
      • Art. XII.—Further Contributions to the Geographical Distribution of the New Zealand Non-marine Mollusca.
      • Art. XIII.—Hymenopterous Parasite of Ovum of Vanessa gonerilla.
      • Art. XIV.—On Lysiphragma howesii, sp. nov.
      • Art. XV.—Embryological Structure of New Zealand Lepidoptera: Part I.
      • Art. XVI.—On “Sugaring” for Lepidoptera in Southland.
      • Art. XVII.—A Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Southland.
      • Art. XVIII.—Lepidoptera of Mount Ida.
      • Art. XIX.—On the Occurrence of Metacrias strategica at Invercargill.
      • Art. XX.—Breeding Black Sheep: a Study in Colour.
      • Art. XXI.—On Hybridism.
      • Art. XXII.—On the Fresh-water Shells of Rissington, Hawke's Bay.
      • Art. XXIII.—Scinde Island, from a Naturalist's Point of View.
      • Art. XXIV.—Notes on New Zealand Land Planarians: Part IV.
      • Art. XXV.—Notes on Salmonidæ and their New Home in the South Pacific.
      • Art. XXVI.—Description of a New Ophiurid.
      • Art. XXVII.—Our Migratory Birds.

    • II.—Botany.

      • Art. XXVIII.—An Inquiry into the Seedling Forms of New Zealand Phanerogams and their Development.
      • Art. XXIX.—Note on the Occurrence of the Genera Gunnera and Myosotis in Chatham Islands.
      • Art. XXX.—A List of the Seaweeds of Norfolk Island.
      • Art. XXXI.—On the Occurrence of Cordyline terminalis in New Zealand.
      • Art. XXXII.—Notes on the Cultivated Food-plants of the Polynesians, with Special Reference to the Ti Pore (Cordyline terminalis).
      • Art. XXXIII.—Some Recent Additions to the New Zealand Flora.
      • Art. XXXIV.—Plant-acclimatisation in New Zealand
      • Art. XXXV.—On the Regrowth of the Totara.
      • Art. XXXVI.—Descriptions of New Native Plants.
      • Art. XXXVII.—Notes on the New Zealand Musci.

    • III.—Geology.

      • Art. XXXVIII.—Notes on an Artesian-well System at the Base of the Port Hills.
      • Art. XXXIX.—On the Occurrence of Crystallized Native Copper on Mine-timbers at Kawau Island.
      • Art. XL.—Notes on a Quartz Mica-diorite from Western Flanks of Moehau.
      • Art. XLI.—Notes on a Hypersthene Andesite from Waihi Mine, Waihi.
      • Art. XLII.—Note on the Cave at Papatu, Ormondville, Hawke's Bay.

    • IV.—Chemistry and Physics.

      • Art. XLIII.—Studies on the Chemistry of the New Zealand Flora.
      • Art. XLIV.—Researches into the Action of Fusible Cutouts.
      • Art. XLV.—Investigation into Kauri-resin.
      • Art. XLVI.—Facts discovered in his Investigation of the Motions of the Atmosphere in the Southern Hemisphere.
      • Art. XLVII.—Note on the Fog in Wellington on the Morning of the 19th June, 1900.
      • Art. XLVIII.—Note on the Vapour-density of Mercury.

    • V.—Miscellaneous.

      • Art. XLIX.—On Entomological Field-work in New Zealand.
      • Art. L.—The Extension of University and Science Work in New Zealand.
      • Art. LI.—The Early Days of Printing in New Zealand; A Chapter of Interesting History.
      • Art. LII.—On Ancient Maori Relics from Canterbury, New Zealand.
      • Art. LIII.—An Optical Illusion.
      • Art. LIV.—The Bite of the Katipo.
      • Art. LV.—Seals as Navigators.
      • Art. LVI.—Rats and Plague.
      • Art. LVII.—The Population of New Zealand.
      • Art. LVIII.—Maori Origins: Part II.
      • Art. LIX.—Some Account of the Beginnings of Literature in New Zealand: Part I., the Maori Section
      • Art. LX.—“Giotto's Circle” and Writing.
      • Art. LXI.—Survey: Practical and Precise.
      • Art. LXII.—On the Tracks of Captain Cook.
      • Art. LXIII.—Hand-list of certain Papers relating more or less directly to the Maori Race, and published in various Publications.

• New Zealand Institute.

  • New Zealand Institute.

    • Thirty-second Annual Report.
    • Museum.
    • Meteorological.
    • Colonial Time-ball Observatory.
    • New Zealand Institute Accounts for 1899–1900.

  • Proceedings

    • Wellington Philosophical Society.

      • First Meeting: 19th June, 1900.
      • Notes on Additions to the Museum
      • Description of Great Spider-crab (Paramicippa grandis).
      • Second Meeting: 24th July, 1900.
      • Remarks on the Chemistry of Tutu
      • Third Meeting: 28th August, 1900.
      • 2. “On the Fog in Wellington on the 19th June last,”
      • 3. “On the Papatu Cave, at Ormondville,”
      • 4. “On Rats and Plague,”
      • 5. “Notes on late Additions to the Museum,”
      • Fourth Meeting: 25th September, 1900.
      • 2. “Early Explorations and Colonisation of Western Canada,”
      • On a Remarkable Lycopodium.
      • Fifth Meeting: 16th October, 1900.
      • Appreciation of the late William Skey
      • Papers.—1. “Motions of the Atmosphere in the Southern Hemisphere,”
      • 2. “The Regrowth of Totara,”
      • Notes on Natural-history Exhibits
      • Sixth Meeting: 15th January, 1901.
      • 3. “On Giotto's Circle and Writing,”
      • 4. “On the Bite of the Katipo,”
      • Remarks on Hydridœ and other Sea-snakes.
      • Remarks on Exhibits
      • Some sponges from the Chatham Islands.
      • On the Conservation of Native Birds: a Letter from Professor Newton, of Cambridge

      • Annual Meeting: 12th March, 1901.

        • Abstract of Annual Report.
        • Election of Officers for 1901
      • 2. “On Seismograms of Distant Earthquakes,”
      • Description of Exhibits.
      • Remarks on a Supposed Specimen of Salmo salar.
      • Remarks on Photographs taken by R. Henry, of the Reserve at Dusky Sound

  • Auckland Institute.

    • First Meeting: 4th June, 1900.

    • Second Meeting: 25th June, 1900.

      • The Rotomahana of To-day.

    • Third Meeting:9th July, 1900.

      • Notes on the Ti Pore
      • 3. “A Nation's Ingratitude,”

    • Fourth Meeting: 23rd July, 1900.

      • The Sexual Theory in Plants.

    • Fifth Meeting: 13th August, 1900.

      • 2. “On the Geology of the Auckland Domain,”

    • Sixth Meeting: 27th August, 1900.

      • On Democracy and Popular Government.

    • Seventh Meeting: 10th September, 1900.

      • The Relation between Light and Electric Force.

    • Eighth Meeting: 24th September, 1900.

      • On the Waitakerei Ranges.
      • 4. “Why not prepare Students for Technical Schools,”

    • Tenth Meeting: 29th October, 1900.

      • The Surface of a Liquid.

    • Eleventh Meeting: 12th November, 1900.

      • On a Hot Spring in the Rotomabann Rift.

    • Annual Meeting: 25th February, 1901.

      • Abstract of Annual Report.
      • Election of Officers for 1901

  • Philosophical Institute of Canterbury.

  • Otago Institute.

    • First Meeting: 8th May, 1900.

      • Account of Recent Excavations at Olympia.

    • Second Meeting: 12th June, 1900.

      • Account of Dr. Berggron's Researches in New Zealand.
      • Exhibits,
      • Remarks on some of the Lower Forms of Animal Life in New Zealand.
      • Account of Government Trawling Operations.
      • Remarks on Proposed Fish-hatchery.

    • Third Meeting: 10th July, 1900.

      • Exhibit of Mctacrias strategica,
      • Account of a New Track to the West Coast.

    • Fourth Meeting: 14th August, 1900.

      • On a Young Whale caught near Otago Heads.
      • The Marine Annelids of the New Zealand Shores.
      • The Knowledge of Animals in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.

    • Fifth Meeting: 11th September, 1900.

      • On a Large Spider-crab (Prionorhynchus edwardsii).

    • Sixth Meeting: 9th October, 1900.

      • On the Condition of Forestry in Now Zealand.
      • On the Undue Weight attached to the Training of certain intellectual Faculties.

    • Annual Meeting: 13th November, 1900.

      • Papers.—1. “List of the Scientific Papers and Addresses by the late Sir Julius von Haast,”
      • Abstract of Annual Report.
      • Election of Officers for 1901
      • On Cremation.

  • Hawke's Bay Philosophical Institute.

    • First Meeting: 14th May, 1900.

      • The Science of the Nineteenth Century. By the President

    • Second Meeting: 11th June, 1900.

      • Paper.—“Bacteria: Benevolent and Malevolent, with Special Reference to the Plague, and to the Treatment of Sewage,”

    • Third Meeting: 9th July, 1900.

      • 2. “Mars and its Canals,”
    • Fourth Meeting: 13th August, 1900.

    • Fifth Meeting: 10th September, 1900.

      • Lecture.—“The House-fly and other Common Insects,”

    • Sixth Meeting: 26th October, 1900.

      • 4. “Vivisection,”

    • Annual Meeting: 4th February, 1901.

      • Abstract of Annual Report.
      • Election of Officers for 1901

  • Westland Institute.

    • Abstract of Annual Report.
    • Election of Officers for 1901

  • Nelson Philosophical Society.

    • First Meeting: 18th March, 1901.
    • Resolutions as to Amalgamation with the Nelson Institute
    • Election of Officers for 1901
• Appendix
  • Meteorology.
    • Comparative Abstract for 1900 and Previous Years.
    • Average Temperature of Seasons compared with those of the Previous Year.
    • Remarks on the Weather During 1900.
    • Earthquakes reported in New Zealand during 1900
• New Zealand Institute Honorary Members.
• Ordinary Members.
• Auckland Institute.
• Philosophical Institute of Canterbury.
• Otago Institute.
• Westland Institute
• Hawke's Bay Philosophical Institute.
• Nelson Philosophical Society.
• List of Institutions and Persons to whom This Volume is Presented by the Governors of the New Zealand Institute.
• Index.