Contents - Volume 35, 1902

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• (title page)
• Corrigendum
• Transactions of the New Zealand Institute
• Contents.
  • Transactions.
• New Zealand Institute.
  • Board of Governors.
• Abstracts of Rules And Statutes.
• In Memoriam.
• In Memoriam.
• Circular. New Zealand Institute.

• Transactions

  • Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, 1902.

    • I.–Miscellaneous.

      • Art. I.—The Bird as the Labourer of Man.
      • Art. II.—The Cultivation and Treatment of the Kumara by the Primitive Maoris.
      • Art. III.—Foot-tracks of Captain Cook.
      • Art. IV.—Following the Tracks of Captain Cook.
      • Art. V.—Food Products of Tuhoeland: being Notes on the Food-supplies of a Non-agricultural Tribe of the Natives of New Zealand; together with some Account of various Customs, Superstitions, &c., pertaininy to Foods.
      • Art. VI.—Notes on a Bone Pendant in the Form of a Lizard(?), found on the Sandhills at Wainui; and on some other Bone Objects.
      • Art. VII.—On a Stone Relic found at Orepuki, Southland.
      • Art. VIII.—Remarks on the Trade and Public Debt of New Zealand.
      • Art. IX.—The Flood of Gold.
      • Art. X.—Nature's Efforts at Sanitation.
      • Art. XI.—Technical and Scientific Training.
      • Art. XII.—The Maoris To-day and To-morrow. (No. 2.)
      • Art. XIII.—An Account of the Fiji Fire-walking Ceremony, or Vilavilairevo, with a Probable Explanation of the Mystery.
      • Art. XIV.—The Adjustment of Triangulation by Least Squares.
      • Art. XV.—The Travelled Goat: a Great Lexicographer, a Celebrated Painter, and a Distinguished Botanist.
      • Art. XVI.—The Horse: a Study in Philology.
      • Art. XVII.—The Fight against Tuberculosis in the Australian Colonies and New Zealand.
      • Art. XVIII.—Malaria and Mosquitos.
      • Art. XIX.—Chips from an Ancient Maori Workshop.

    • II. — Zoology.

      • Art. XX.—On some New Species of Macro-lepidoptera.
      • Art. XXI.—On some New Species of Lepidoptera (Moths) from Southland.
      • Art. XXII.—On Charagia virescens, Dbld.
      • Art. XXIII.—A Fly and a Spider (Pompilidæ, Salius monachus, Sm.; and Porrhothele antipodiana).
      • Art. XXIV.—On the Anatomy of Paryphanta busbyi, Gray.
      • Art. XXV. — On the Occurrence of Paludicella in New Zealand.
      • Art. XXVI.—Short Notes on some Insects.
      • Art. XXVII.—The Rotifera of New Zealand: a Revised and Expanded List.
      • Art. XXVIII.—On a New Species of Odontria.
      • Art. XXIX.—On a New Species of Earthworm from Norfolk Island.
      • Art. XXX.—On an Earthworm from the Auckland Islands—Notiodrilus aucklandicus.
      • Art. XXXI. — On the Old and some New Species of Earth-worms belonging to the Genus Plagiochæta.
      • Explanation Of Plates XXII.-XXVI.
      • Art. XXXII.—A List of the Hymenoptera of New Zealand.
      • Art. XXXIII.—On the Marine Mollusca of Totaranui Bay, Nelson.
      • Art. XXXIV.—On a New Species of Psyllidæ.
      • Art. XXXV.—Notes on the Whitebait of New Zealand.
      • Art. XXXVI.—Notes on the New Zealand Whitebait.
      • Art. XXXVII.—Notes on the New Zealand Whitebait.
      • Art. XXXVIII.—Notes on Fish found in the Piako River.

    • III.—Botany.

      • Art. XXXIX—On the Pollination of Rhabdothamnus solandri, A. Cunn.
      • Art. XL.—On the Musci of the Calcareous Districts of New Zealand, with Descriptions of New Species.
      • Art. XLI. — Structure of Leaf of certain Species of Coprosma.
      • Art. XLII.—On some Recent Changes in the Nomenclaiure of the New Zealand Myrsinaceæ.
      • Art. XLIII.—The Stem-structure of some Leafless Plants of New Zealand, with Especial Reference to their Assimilatory Tissue.[Read before the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, 3rd September, 1902.]
      • Art. XLIV.—Note on Hybrid Ferns.
      • Art. XLV.—A List of Plants growing at “The Gums,” Taita.
      • Art. XLVI.—On New Species of Grasses from New Zealand.

    • IV.—Geology.

      • Art. XLVII.—The Kingston Moraine.
      • Art. XLVIII.—On the Geology of the Rock-phosphate Deposits of Clarendon, Otago.
      • Art. XLIX.—Notes on the Occurrence of Native Lead at Parapara, Collingwood.

    • V.—Chemistry and Physics.

      • Art. L.—Notes on the Aurora in the Southern Hemisphere.
      • Art. LI.—On the Construction of a Table of Natural Sines by Means of a New Relation between the Leading Differences.
      • Art. LII.—Two Spherical Harmonic Relations.
      • Art. LIII. — On the Interpretation of Milne Earthquake Diagram.
      • Art. LIV.—On the Use of the Standard Functions in In-terpolation.
      • Art. LV.—On New Zealand Mean Time, and on the Longitude of the Colonial Observatory, Wellington; with a Note on the Universal Time Question.
      • Art. LVI.—The Molecular Complexity of the Fatty Acids and their Derivatives in Phenol Solution.
      • Art. LVII.—The Exhibition of a Maximum or Minimum in the Properties of certain Series of Organic Compounds.
      • Art. LVIII.—A Contribution to the Chemistry of Colophony.

    • I.—Miscellaneous—continued.

      • Art. LIX.—On a Supposed Magnetic Sense of Direction in Bees.
      • Art. LX.—List of Papers on the Geology of New Zealand.

• New Zealand Institute

  • New Zealand Institute.

    • Thirty-Fourth Annual Report.
    • Museum.
    • Meteorological.
    • Colonial Time-Ball Observatory.
    • New Zealand Institute Accounts for 1901-2.

• Proceedings

  • Wellington Philosophical Society.

    • First Meeting: 5th August, 1902.

      • Note on somateria mollissima.
      • Remarks on Opossums.
      • Note on the Carunculated Shag
      • Remarks on Wairaki Clay.

    • Second Meeting: 18th November, 1902.

      • Remarks on Infusorial Earth.
    • Third Meeting: 16th December, 1902. Mr. W. T. L. Travers, F.L.S., President, in the chair.

    • Annual Meeting: 18th March, 1903. Mr. W. T. L. Travers, F.L.S., President, in the chair.

      • Abstract of Annual Report.
      • Election of Officers for 1903.
      • Address

  • Auckland Institute.

    • First Meeting: 9th June, 1902. Dr. E. Roberton, President, in the chair.

    • Second Meeting: 7th July, 1902. Dr. E. Roberton, President, in the chair.

      • A Visit to Tahiti and the Society Islands.
    • Third Meeting: 4th August, 1902. Dr. E. Roberton, President, in the chair.
    • Fourth Meeting: 18th August, 1902. Dr. E. Roberton, President, in the chair.

    • Fifth Meeting: 1st September, 1902. Dr. E. Roberton, President, in the chair.

      • Japanese Mediævalism.

    • Sixth Meeting: 15th September, 1902. Dr. E. Roberton, President, in the chair.

      • Tennyson.

    • Seventh Meeting: 6th October, 1902. Dr. E. Roberton, President, in the chair.

      • Universal Equal Suffrage.
    • Eighth Meeting: 20th October, 1902. Dr. E. Roberton, President, in the chair.

    • Annual Meeting: 23rd February, 1903. Dr. E. Roberton, President, in the chair.

      • Abstract of Annual Report.
      • Election of Officers for 1903.

  • Philosophical Institute of Canterbury.

    • First Meeting: 7th May, 1902. Mr. J. B. Mayne, President, in the chair.

      • Penguins and Petrels

    • Second Meeting: 4th June, 1902. Mr. J. B. Mayne, President, in the chair. New Member.—Dr. J. P. Frengley, D.P.H.

      • The Production of Colour by Absorption.
    • Third Meeting: 2nd July, 1902. Mr. J. B. Mayne, President, in the chair.

    • Fourth Meeting: 6th August, 1902. Mr. J. B. Mayne, President, in the chair.

      • The Present State of our Knowledge of the Electrical Conditions of the Atmosphere.
    • Fifth Meeting: 3rd September, 1902. Mr. J. B. Mayne, President, in the chair.

    • Sixth Meeting: 1st October, 19̄02. Mr. J. B. Mayne, President, in the chair.

      • The Provencal Troubadours.

    • Seventh Meeting: 5th November, 1902. Mr. J. B. Mayne, President, in the chair.

      • The Strength and Elasticity of some Australian and New Zealand Timbers.

    • Eighth Meeting: 26th November, 1902. Mr. J. B. Mayne, President, in the chair.

      • Note on a Fresh-water Isopod (Phreatoicus).

    • Annual Meeting: 1st April, 1903. Mr. J. B. Mayne, President, in the chair. New Members.—Miss Bing and Mr. J. H. Seager.

      • Abstract of Annual Report.
      • Election of Officers for 1903

  • Otago Institute.

    • First Meeting: 13th May, 1902. Professor Benham, President, in the chair.

    • Second Meeting: 10th June, 1902. Professor Benham, President, in the chair.

      • Resolution regarding the Mount Cook Reserve
      • Impressions of Florence.

    • Third Meeting: 8th July, 1902. Professor Benham, President, in the chair.

      • Report on the Marine Fish-batchery at Portobello
      • Remarks on Fossil Cetacean Teeth.

    • Fourth Meeting: 12th August, 1902. Professor Benham, President, in the chair.

      • Protection and Reclamation of Sea-coasts by planting.

    • Fifth Meeting: 14th October, 1902. Professor Benham, President, in the chair.

      • On Tœnia echinococcus and Hydatid Disease.

    • Sixth Meeting: 14th October, 1902. Professor Benham, President, in the chair.

      • On the Wanganui Gravels.
      • Exhibits.

    • Annual Meeting: 11th November, 1902. Professor Benham, President, in the chair.

      • Abstract of Annual Report
      • Election of Officers for 1903

  • Westland Institute.

    • Annual Meeting. Dr. Teichelmann, President, in the chair.

      • Abstract of Annual Report
      • Election of Officers for 1903.

  • Hawke'S Bay Philosophical Institute.

    • First Meeting: 19th May, 1902.

    • Second Meeting: 21st July, 1902.

      • The Birth and Development of Architecture
    • Third Meeting: 11th August, 1902.

    • Fourth Meeting: 15th September, 1902.

      • The Honey-bee as seen through the Microscope

    • Fifth Meeting: 13th October, 1902.

      • Wagner,
    • Sixth Meeting: 1st December, 1902.

    • Annual Meeting.

      • Abstract of Annual Report
      • Election of Officers for 1903.

  • Nelson Institute.

    • Annual Meeting: 25Th February, 1903.

      • Abstract of Annual Report
      • Election of Officers for 1903.
• Appendix
  • Meteorology. Comparative Abstract for 1902 and Previous Years
  • Average Temperature of Seasons compared with those of the Previous Year.
  • Remarks on the Weather, 1902.
  • Earthquakes reported in New Zealand during 1902.
  • Records of Milne Seismograph No. 20, At Wellington, From January, 1902, To December, 1902 (Inclusive). Plates LIII. and LIV.
  • Records of Milne Seismograph No. 16, At Christchurch, New Zealand.
  • New Zealand Institute. Honorary Members.
  • Ordinary Members
  • List of Institutions And Persons to whom This Volume is Presented by the Governors of the New Zealand Institute.
• Index
  • Authors
  • Subjects