Contents - Volume 49, 1916

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

• New Zealand Institute.
  • Notice to Members.
• (title page)
• Memorandum for Authors of Papers.
• Obituary.
  • Captain L. S. Jennings.
  • Thomas King.
• Contents.
• List of Plates.

• Transactions.

  • Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, 1916.

    • Art. I.—Notes from the Canterbury College Mountain Biological Station, Cass. No. 5.—The Mat-plants, Cushion-plants, and Allied forms of the Cass River Bed (Eastern Botanical District, New Zealand).
    • Art. II.—Notes on Parsonsia capsularis R. Br.
    • Art. III. — On a New South Polynesian Palm, with Notes on the Genus Rhopalostylis Wendl. et Drude.
    • Art. IV.—Descriptions of New Native Flowering-plants, with some Notes on Known Species.
    • Art. V.—Notes on New Zealand Floristic Botany, including Descriptions of New Species, &c. (No. 2).
    • Art. VI.—A Consideration of the Terms “Species” and “Variety” as used in Botany, with Special Reference to the Flora of New Zealand.
    • Art. VII. — Studies in the New Zealand Species of the Genus Lycopodium. Part II—Methods of Vegetative Reproduction.
    • Art. VIII—The Vegetation and Flora of Lord Howe Island.
    • Art. IX.—Botanical Results of an Excursion to the Upper Makarora Valley and the Haast Pass, supported by a List of the Species observed.
    • Art. X.—Notes of a Botanical Excursion to Long Island, near Stewart Island, including a List of Species.
    • Art. XI. —Contributions to the Diptera Fauna of New Zealand: Part I.
    • Art. XII.—A List of the Lepidoptera of Otago.
    • Art. XIII.—Descriptions of New Species of Lepidoptera.
    • Art. XIV—Descriptions of New Zealand Lepidoptera.
    • Art. XV—Revision of New Zealand Notodontina.
    • Art. XVI.—New Lepidoptera
    • Art. XVII.—Some Corals from Kermadec Islands.
    • Art. XVIII.—On the Origin of a New Species by Isolation.
    • Art. XIX. — Notes on the Occurrence and Habits of the Fresh-water Crustacean Lepidurus viridis Baird.
    • Art. XX. — The New Zealand Sand-hoppers belonging to the Genus Talorchestia.
    • Art. XXI.—The Lithobiomorpha of New Zealand.
    • Art XXII.—The Occurrence in New Zealand of Craterostigmus tasmanianus Pocock (Chilopoda).
    • Art. XXIII.—The Stratigraphy of the Tertiary Beds of the Trelissick or Castle Hill Basin.
    • Art XXIV—An Unrecorded Tertiary Outlier in the Basin of the Rakaia.
    • Art. XXV—An Ancient Buried Forest near Riccarton: its Bearing on the Mode of Formation of the Canterbury Plains.
    • Art. XXVI —The Geology of Banks Peninsula.
    • Art. XXVII.—The Relationship of the Upper Cretaceous and Lower Cainozoic Formations of New Zealand
    • Art XXVIII.—The Rate of Erosion of Hooker and Mueller Glaciers, New Zealand.
    • Art. XXIX —On a New Species of Coral from the Lower Oamaruian Tuffs near Deborah, Oamaru
    • Art. XXX.—Diastrophic and other Considerations in Classification and Correlation, and the Existence of Minor Diastrophic Districts in the Notocene.
    • Art. XXXI—The Hawera Series, or the So-called “Drift Formation” of Hawera.
    • Art. XXXII. — Additional Facts concerning the Distribution of Igneous Rocks in New Zealand.
    • Art. XXXIII.—Concretions in the Recent Sediments of the Auckland Harbour, New Zealand.
    • Art. XXXIV—Kermadec Island Fleas.
    • Art. XXXV.—The Fossil Plains of North Otago.
    • Art. XXXVI.—Geology of the Central Kaipara.
    • Art. XXXVII.—The Wangaloa Beds.
    • Art. XXXVIII.—Additional Fossils from Target Gully, near Oamaru.
    • Art. XXXIX.—Fossils and Age of the Hampden (Onekakara) Beds.
    • Art. XL —On the Absorption of Lime by Soils: An Investigation of the Hutchinson-MacLennan. Method of determining the Lime Requirements of Soils.
    • Art. XLI.—On the Proposal for a Soil Survey of New Zealand.
    • Art. XLII.—Fluctuations in the Water-level of some Artesian Wells in the Christchurch Area.
    • Art. XLIII.—Note on the Fluctuation of Water-level in a Christchurch Artesian Well.
    • Art. XLIV.—Apparatus for the Determination of the Magnitude of Small Forces, especially useful in connection with Hydraulic Experiments.
    • Art.—XLV. An Arrangement for quieting the Flow of a Stream of Disturbed Water.
    • Art XLVI.—A Study of the Electrical Deposition of Nickel in the Presence of Nitrate.
    • Art. XLVII.—Notes on an Artesian Trial Bore, Westshore, Napier.
    • Art. XLVIII.—Night Marching by the Stare.
    • Art. XLIX.—Effects of the Snowstorm of the 6th September, 1916, on the Vegetation of Stewart Island.
    • Art. L.—New Zealand Bird-song: Further Notes.
    • Art LI.—The Blepharoceridae (Diptera) of New Zealand (in Part a Translation of the Work of Professor Mario Bezzi).

• Proceedings.

  • Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, 1916.

    • Fourteenth Annual Meeting. Wellington, 30Th January, 1917.
    • Presidential Address.
    • Wellington Philosophical Society.
    • Auckland Institute.
    • Philosophical Institute Of Canterbury.
    • Otago Institute.
    • Hawke's Bay Philosophical Institute.
    • Nelson Institute.
    • Manawatu Philosophical Society.
    • Wanganui Philosophical Society.
• Appendix.
  • New Zealand Institute Act, 1908 1908, No. 130.
  • Regulations
  • The Hutton Memorial Medal And Research Fund.
  • Hector Memorial Research Fund.
  • Regulations For Administering The Government Research Grant.
  • New Zealand Institute.
  • Ordinary Members.
  • Serial Publications Received by the Library of the New Zealand Institute, 1916.
  • List of Institutions to which the Publications of the Institute are Presented by the Governors of the New Zealand Institute.
• Index.