Contents - Volume 72, 1942-43

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

• (title page)
• Corrigenda.
• (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, 20th May, 1942.
    • Report of the Hon. Treasurer.
    • Trust Accounts for the Year Ending March 31, 1942.
    • Report of Honorary Editor.
    • Report of Honorary Librarian.
    • National Art Gallery and Dominion Museum Board of Trustees. Report of Society's Representatives.
    • The Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture. Report of Representative.
    • Observatories Committee. Report of Society's Representative.
    • Carter Observatory Board. Report of Society's Representatives.
    • Dedicated To the Memory of Charles Rooking Carter 1822–1896 Through whose generosity The Erection of this Building Was made Possible.
    • Carter Observatory.
    • Reports of Research Grantees.
    • Hutton Grantees.
    • Great Barrier Reef Committee. Report of Representative.
    • Report of Sub-committee on the T. K. Sidey Summer-time Award.
  • Reports of Member Bodies.
    • Auckland Institute. President: Mr W. A. Fairclough. Director: Lieut.-Col. Gilbert Archey. Acting Director: Mr A. W. B. Powell
    • The Wellington Branch of the Royal Society of New Zealand (Inc.). President: Dr M. A. F. Barnett. Secretary: Mr J. T. Salmon.
    • Nelson Philosophical Society. President: Mr. F. G. Gibbs. Hon. Secretary and Treasurer: Mr O. B. Pemberton.
    • Canterbury Branch of the Royal Society of New Zealand. President: Mr G. Stokell. Hon. Secretary: Mr R. S. Duff.
    • Otago Branch of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Annual Report for Session 1941. President: Dr R. Gardner. Hon. Secretary: Dr H. D. Skinner.
    • Southland Branch of the Royal Society of New Zealand. President: Dr C. C. Anderson. Acting Secretary: Mr A. D. Nisbet.
  • Presidential Address
  • Appendix. Abstracts of Papers Read Before Branches.

  • Obituary

    • Arthur William Hill, 1875–1942.

• Transactions

  • The Body Appendages of Balanus decorus.
  • The Juvenile Plumage of Some Birds and an Interpretation of Its Nature.
  • Notes on Some New Zealand Plants and Descriptions of New Species (No. 2).
  • The Orsillini of New Zealand. (Hemiptera, Lygaeidae.)
  • Fuchsite-bearing Schists from Dead Horse Creek, Lake Wakatipu Region, Western Otago.
  • Geology of the West Coast of the Firth of Thames.
  • The Basic Igneous Rocks of Eastern Otago and their Tectonic Environment.
  • Current Views on the Origin and Tectonic Significance of Schistosity.
  • The Ellipticities of Surfaces of Equal Density in the Earth's Interior.
  • The Origin of the Lower Devonian Fauna of Reefton, New Zealand; with Notes on Devonian Brachiopoda.
  • A Detail of the Pukaki Moraine.
  • A New Species of Onychiurus (Collembola) from New Zealand.
  • The Basic Igneous Rocks of Eastern Otago and Their Tectonic Environment, Part III. The Olivine Theralite of Waihola, East Otago, a Gravitationally-Differentiated Sill, with Notes on Related Rocks.
  • The Breeding Habits of Cryptoconchus porosus (Burrow)
  • Francolite, a Carbonate-Apatite from Milburn, Otago.
  • The Geology of the West Coast from Abut Head to Milford Sound. Part 2. Glaciation.
  • Notoscolex equestris, an Earthworm from the Poor Knights Islands.
  • The Octopodous Mollusca of New Zealand. I.—The Midget Octopus of the Coastal Waters.
  • A Study of the Little Owl, Athene noctua, in New Zealand.
  • The Anatomy and Systematic Position of Temnocephala novae-zealandiae Haswell.
  • Some Eocene Mollusca from New Zealand.
  • Preferred Orientation of Olivine Crystals in Peridotites, With Special Reference to New Zealand Examples.
  • The Physical Characteristics of Meteors.
  • Upper Winds at Little America on November 29, 1929.
  • Some Hitherto Unrecorded Plant Stations.
  • Observations on the Growth of Macrocystis in New Zealand. With a description of a free-living form.
  • Variation in Senecio kirkii Hook.f.
  • The Geology of the Brocken Range and the Kaiwhata Valley, East Wellington.
  • The Igneous Rocks of the Brocken Range-Ngahape Area, Eastern Wellington.
  • Descriptions of Two New Species of Lepidoptera.
  • New Records of Collembola from New Zealand, with Descriptions of New Genera and Species. Part I. Collembola. Arthropleona.
• Appendix.
  • List of Awards.
• The Royal Society of New Zealand, Council for 1942–43.
  • Honorary Patron. His Excellency the Governor-General. Council. Ex Officio.
  • President.
  • Vice-President.
  • Government Representatives.
  • Co-opted Member.
  • Officers for the Year 1941–42
  • Former Manager and Editor
  • Past Presidents.
  • Honorary Members.
  • Former Honorary Members.
  • Fellows of the Royal Society of New Zealand.
• General Index
  • Note.—New genera, species, etc., are printed in black type.