Contents - Volume 70, 1940-41

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, 22nd MAY, 1940.
    • Reports of Member Bodies. Auckland Institute. President: Mr. C. Reginald Ford. Director and Secretary: Mr. G. Archey. Report for the Year 1939-40.
    • Presidential Address
    • Appendix Abstracts of Papers Read Before Branches.
  • Obituaries.
    • André Léon Tonnoir, Entomologist.
    • G. F. J. M. Britton, Coccidologist.

• Transactions

  • Notes on the Geography and Rocks of the Ranges Between the Pyke and Matukituki Rivers, North-west Otago.
  • Growth-rates of Certain Indigenous Species of Cushion-plants.
  • Notes on some New Zealand Plants and Descriptions of New Species.
  • Palaeontological Study of Nukumaruan and Waitotaran Rocks near Wanganui.
  • Trias–Jura?
  • The Basal Beds of the Akaroa Volcano.
  • The Divisions of the Upper Cretaceous and Tertiary in New Zealand.
  • Elastic Constants of the Earth's Mantle.
  • Applicability and Limitations of Petrofabric Analysis Without Use of a Universal Stage.
  • A Review of the Tertiary and Recent Neozelanic Pyramidellid Molluscs. No. 7—Further Odostomid Genera.
  • The Occurrence of Hyoidal Teeth in Salvelinus fontinalis.
  • Leaf Anatomy of the New Zealand Mangrove.
  • Obituary. William Herbert Guthrie-Smith, 1861–1940..
  • The Isolation of Phyllocladene from the Leaf-oil of Podocarpus hallii and its Significance on the Botanical Classification of this Species.
  • The Gravels of the Mackenzie Intermont.
  • Mugearites in the Dunedin District.
  • Tasmacetus shepherai. History and Description of Specimens Cast Ashore on Mason's Bay, Stewart Island, in February, 1933.
  • The Marine Mollusca of the Aupourian Province, New Zealand..
  • Landslides and Allied Features in the Dunedin District in Relation to Geological Structure, Topography, and Engineering.
  • A Revision of the Genus Gobiomorphus.
  • A New Species of New Zealand Land-Planarian, Artioposthia civis. Notes on Anatomy, Histology and Physiology with Ecological Data.
  • The Collembolan Fauna of New Zealand, including a Discussion of Its Distribution and Affinities.
• Appendix.
  • List of Awards.
• The Royal Society Of New Zealand.
  • Council for 1939–40.
  • Honorary Members.
  • Fellows of The Royal Society of New Zealand.
• General Index