Contents - Volume 44, 1911

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• New Zealand Institute.
  • Notice To Members.
  • Memorandum For Authors Of Papers For Transactions And Proceedings Of The New Zealand Institute.
• (title page)
• (untitled)
• Obituary.
• Contents.
• List of Plates.

• Transactions.

  • Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, 1911.

    • Art. I.—Observations concerning Evolution, derived from Ecological Studies in New Zealand.
    • Art. II.—Some Hitherto-unrecorded Plant-habitats (VII).
    • Art. III.—Some Notes on the Botany of the Spenser Mountains, with a List of the Species collected.
    • Art. IV.—Notes on the Plant Covering of Codfish Island and the Rugged Islands.
    • Art. V.—List of Lichens and Fungi collected in the Kermadec Islands in 1908.
    • Art. VI.—A Revision of the Classification of New Zealand Caradrinina.
    • Art. VII.—On the Nomenclature of the Lepidoptera of New Zealand.
    • Art. VIII.—Descriptions of Three New Species of Lepidoptera.
    • Art. IX.—Descriptions of New Zealand Lepidoptera.
    • Art. X.—Notes on some Dragon-flies from the Kermadec Islands.
    • Art. XI.—Miscellaneous Notes on some New Zealand Crustacea.
    • Art. XII.—Report on Sundry Invertebrates from the Kermadec Islands.
    • Art. XIII.—Earthquake-origins in the South-west Pacific in 1910.
    • Art. XIV.—Fluctuations in the Level of the Water in some Artesian Wells in the Christchurch Area.
    • Art. XV.—A New Genus and some New Species of Plants.
    • Art. XVI.—Some Rocks of Mount Cargill, Dunedin.
    • Art. XVII.—Descriptions of New Native Species of Phanerogams.

  • Corrigenda. Page 180, line 30.

    • Art. XVIII.—On Danthonia nuda Hook. f. and Triodia Thomsoni (Buchanan) Petrie, comb. nov.
    • Art. XIX.— The Migrations of the Polynesians according to the Evidence of their Language.
    • Art. XX.—Notes on New Zealand Fishes: No. 2.
    • Art. XXI.—New Species of Lepidoptera, with Notes on the Larvae and Pupae of some New Zealand Butterflies.
    • Art. XXII.—The Raised Beaches of Cape Turakirac.
    • Art. XXIII.—The Geographic Relationships of the Birds of Lord Howe, Norfolk, and the Kermadec Islands.
    • Art XXIV.—A Preliminary Account of the Lower Waipara Gorge.
    • Art. XXV.—Notes on Nest, Life-history, and Habits of Migas distinctus, a New Zealand Trapdoor Spider.
    • Art. XXVI.—Some Features of the Circulatory System of Heptatrema cirrata Forster.
    • Art. XXVII.—Notes on Wellington Physiography.
    • Art. XXVIII.—The Composition of some New Zealand Foodstuffs.
    • Art. XXIX.—Montan Wax.
    • Art. XXX.—The Chemistry of Bush Sickness.
    • Art. XXXI.—Note on the Composition of Nitric Acid.
    • Art. XXXII.—The Interaction of Iron with the Higher Fatty Acids.
    • Art. XXXIII.—Nephelinite Rocks in New Zealand.
    • Art. XXXIV. — The Discovery and Extent of Former Glaciation in the Tararua Ranges, North Island, New Zealand.
    • Art. XXXV.—The Geology of the Bluff, New Zealand.
    • Art XXXVI.—The Anatomical Structure of the New Zealand Piperaceae.
    • Art. XXXVII.—Observations on Salicornia australis.
    • Art. XXXVIII.—On a Collection of Mallophaga from the Kermadecs.
    • Art. XXXIX.—Vascular System of Siphonaria obliquata Sowerby.
    • Art. XL.—Descriptions of New Genera and Species of Coleoptera.

  • Appendix.

    • Records of Milne Seismographs, 1906–1911. Records of the Milne Seismographs Nos. 16 and 20, taken at Christchurch and Wellington by H. F. Skey and G. Hogben.
  • Index.
    • Authors of Papers.

• Proceedings Of The New Zealand Institute 1911

  • Contents.
    • Proceedings.
    • Papers.
    • Abstracts.

  • New Zealand Institute. 1911. Part I. Proceedings.

    • Wellington Philosophical Society.
    • Auckland Institute.First Meeting: 12th June, 1911. Mr. J. H. Upton, President, in the chair.
    • Manawatu Philosophical Society.
    • Otago Institute.
    • Philosophical Institute Of Canterbury.
    • Hawke's Bay Philosophical Institute.

  • Papers.

    • 1.Some Effects of Imported Animals on the Indigenous Vegetation.
    • 2.Note on Helichrysum fasciculatum Buchanan.
    • 3.Note on the Species of Hydra found in New Zealand.
    • 4.Additions to the Fish Fauna of the Kermadec Islands.
    • 5.The Action of Alkyl Iodides on Copper-oxide.
    • 6.The Nature of Gamma Rays.

  • Abstracts.

    • 1.Die Gattung Townsonia Cheesem.
    • 2.Some Constants of Mutton-bird Oil and Fat.
    • 3.An Attempt to introduce Olearia semidentata into the British Isles.
    • 4.New Zealand Plants.
    • 5.Remarkable Instances of Plant-dispersion.
    • 6. Olearias in Ireland.
    • 7. Hybrid Veronicas.

• Proceedings of The New Zealand Institute 1911 Part II

  • Contents.
    • Proceedings.
    • Papers.
    • Abstracts.

  • New Zealand Institute. 1911. Part II. Proceedings.

    • Wellington Philosophical Society.
    • Auckland Institute.
    • Manawatu Philosophical Society.
    • Otago Institute.
    • Philosophical Institute of Canterbury.
    • Hawke's Bay Philosophical Institute.

  • Papers.

    • 1.Descriptions of some New Species of New Zealand Plants.
    • 2. Notes on the Nomenclature of the New Zealand Geometridae; with Description of a New Species.

  • Abstracts.

    • 1. Marine Algae from the Kermadecs.
    • 2. Fructification of Macrocystis.
    • 3. Studies in Ornamental Trees and Shrubs.
    • 4. Die Geographie der Farne.
    • 5. Die Gattung Acaena.
    • 6. On the Peopling by Plants of the Subalpine River-bed of the Rakaia (Southern Alps of New Zealand).
    • 7. The Hepatics of New Zealand.
    • 8. Handbuch der Regionalen Geologie: New Zealand and Adjacent Islands.

• Proceedings Of The New Zealand Institute 1911

  • Contents.
    • Proceedings.
    • Abstracts.
    • Appendix.

  • Proceedings Of The New Zealand Institute. 1911. Part III.

    • Ninth Annual Meeting. Christchurch, 25th January, 1912.
    • Presidential Address.
    • Auckland Institute.
    • Wellington Philosophical Society.
    • Description of a Multiple Rainbow
    • Philosophical Institute Of Canterbury.
    • The Methods of Snaring Birds used by the Maoris, with Notes on a Bird known to the Maoris as “Tiaka.”
    • Otago Institute.
    • Hawke's Bay Philosophical Institute.
    • Manawatu Philosophical Society.

  • Abstracts.

    • 1 “Monographie der Gattung Koeleria”.
    • 2. “Monographie der Gattung Taraxacum”.
• Appendix.
  • New Zealand Institute Acts.
  • New Zealand Institute Act, 1908
  • Regulations.
  • The Hutton Memorial Medal And Research Fund.
  • Hector Memorial Research Fund.
• New Zealand Institute.
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  • List of Institutions to which The Publications of the Institute Are Presented by the Governors of the New Zealand Institute.