Contents - Volume 69, 1940

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

• (title page)
• Royal Society Of New Zealand.
  • Notice To Members.
  • Instructions To Authors Of Papers
• Contents.
• List of Plates.

• Transactions

  • Proceedings Of The Royal Society of New Zealand

    • Minutes of The Annual Meeting of The Council, 23rd May, 1939.
  • Presidential Address

• Transactions

  • The Temperature Coefficient of the Decomposition of N-chloracetanilide.
  • An Iodine Survey of New Zealand Livestock. Part V—Sheep of the North Island.
  • Mineralogical Notes from the University of Otago, New Zealand—No. 2. Comparative Composition-Variation Diagrams for the Cainozoic Igneous Rocks of New Zealand with Determinations of the Optic Axial, Angles of the Pyroxenes and Olivines Contained Therein.
  • The Bob's Cove Tertiary Beds and the Moonlight Thrust-Fault.
  • New Zealand Foraminifera: Key Species in Stratigraphy. No. 2.
  • A New Freshwater Fish of the Genus Philypnodon.
  • New Zealand Seaweeds.—Reference List No. II. The Rhodophyceae—Part A (Bangiales, Nemalionales, Cryptonemiales, and Gigartinales).
  • The Birth, Growth and Death of a Legend.

  • Obituaries.

    • James Scott Maclaurin (1864-1939).
    • Edward Kidson (1882-1939).
  • The Variation of Gravity Within the Earth.
  • A Review of the Tertiary and Recent Neozelanic Pyramidellid Molluscs. No. 6—The Genus Odostomia.
  • Mosquito Life in the Auckland District. Report Of The Auckland Mosquito Research Committee On An Investigation Made
  • Occurrence of Dasypodia selenophora in Southland.
  • Descriptive Notes on Some New Zealand Fishes
  • The Mould Fungi of New Zealand. II.The Genus Aspergillus
  • Notes on the Puccinelliae of New Zealand.
  • Notes on New Zealand Floristic Botany. Including Descriptions of New Species, ETC.—No. 7.
  • Appendix.
  • Mineralogical Notes from the University of Otago, N.Z. No. 3—Kaersutite and Other Brown Amphiboles in the Cainozoic Igneous Rocks of the Dunedin District.
  • N.Z. Foraminifera: Key Species in Stratigraphy—No. 3.
  • Additions to New Zealand Rhyacophilidae—Part 1.
  • Carposina adreptella.
  • Hexatricha pulverulenta Westwood.
  • Breeding Habits of the Fishes of Otago Harbour and Adjacent Seas.
  • The Glaucous Hebe of the Inland Patea. Veronica colensoi, V. hillii, and V. darwiniana.
  • Note on the Tetrasporic Form of Gigartina alveata.
  • Catalogue of Aurora Australis Displays, 1931–1938.
  • Observation of Meteors for the Years 1935–1938 in New Zealand. Fourth Report Of The Meteor. Section Of Tee N.Z. Astronomical. Society, Inc.
  • The Makara and Karori Valleys and Their Bearing Upon the Physiographic History of Wellington.
  • The Validity of the Coccid Genus Eulecanium Cockerell.
  • The Life History of Lecanium (Eulecanium) persicae (Fabricius), and Descriptions of the Different Instars.
  • A New Species of Galaxias.
  • A Second Specimen of Calanthias in New Zealand Waters.
  • The Waitotaran Faunule at Kaawa Creek—Part 3.
  • New Zealand Foraminifera: Key Species in Stratigraphy, No. 4.
  • The Carabidae (Coleoptera) of New Zealand. Part 1. Pterostichini
• Appendix.
• The Royal Society of New Zealand, Council for 1938–39.
  • Honorary Patron. His Excellency the Governor-General.
  • Officers for the Year 1938–39.
  • Member Bodies.
  • Former Manager and Editor (Under the New Zealand Institute Act, 1867.)
  • Past Presidents.
  • Honorary Members.
  • Former Honorary Members.
  • Fellows of the Royal Society of New Zealand.
• General Index.
• Index of Authors.