Volume 72, 1942-43

Contents.
| Astronomy. | |
| Page | |
|---|---|
| The Physical Characteristics of Meteors. | |
| By R. A. McIntosh. | 301 |
| Botany. | |
| Notes on Some New Zealand Plants and Descriptions of New Species. | |
| By G. Simpson and J. Scott Thomson | 21 |
| Some Hitherto Unrecorded Plant Stations. | |
| By A. J. Healy. | 324 |
| Observations on the Growth of Macrocystis in N.Z. | |
| By Lucy B. Moore. | 333 |
| Variation in Senecio kirkii Hook. f. | |
| By F. J. Newhook. | 341 |
| Geology. | |
| Fuchsite-bearing Schists from Dead Horse Creek, Western Otago. | |
| By C. O. Hutton | 53 |
| Geology of the West Coast of the Firth of Thames. | |
| By D. A. Brown | 69 |
| The Basic Igneous Rocks of Eastern Otago and their Tectonic Environment. Part II. | |
| By W. N. Benson | 35 |
| Current Views on the Origin and Tectonic Signification of Schistosity. | |
| By F. J. Turner | 119 |
| A Detail of the Pukaki Moraine. | |
| By R. Speight | 148 |
| The Basic Igneous Rocks of Eastern Otago and Their Tectonic Environment, Part III. | |
| By W. N. Benson | 160 |

| Francolite, a Carbonate-Apatite from Milburn, Otago. | |
| By C. O. Hutton and F. T. Seelye. | 191 |
| The Geology of the West Coast from Abut Head to Milford Sound. Part 2. Glaciation. | |
| By H. W. Wellman and R. W. Willett. | 199 |
| Preferred Orientation of Olivine Crystals in Peridotites. | |
| By F. J. Turner. | 280 |
| The Geology of the Brocken Range and the Kaiwhata Valley, East Wellington. | |
| By D. A. Brown. | 347 |
| The Igneous Rocks of the Brocken Range—Ngahape Area, Eastern Wellington. | |
| By C. O. Hutton. | 353 |
| Meteorology. | |
| Upper Winds at Little America on November 29, 1929. | |
| By C. E. Palmer. | 311 |
| Palaeontology. | |
| The Origin of the Lower Devonian Fauna of Reefton, New Zealand; with Notes on Devonian Brachiopoda. | |
| By R. S. Allan | 144 |
| Some Eocene Mollusca from New Zealand. | |
| By J. Marwick. | 268 |
| Seismology. | |
| The Ellipticities of Surfaces of Equal Density in the Earth's Interior. | |
| By K. E. Bullen | 141 |
| Zoology. | |
| The Body Appendages of Balanus decorus. | |
| By J. T. Linzey | 1 |

| The Orsillini of New Zealand. | |
| By R. L. Usinger | 41 |
| The Juvenile Plumage of Some Birds and an Interpretation of its Nature. | |
| By E. Percival | 6 |
| A New Species of Onychiurus (Collembola) from New Zealand. | |
| By J. T. Salmon | 168 |
| The Breeding Habits of Cryptoconchus porosus, (Burrow). | |
| By Beryl I. Brewin | 186 |
| The Octopodous Mollusca of New Zealand. (1) The Midget Octopus of the Coastal Waters. | |
| By W. B. Benham. | 226 |
| Notoscolex equestris, an Earthworm from the Poor Knights Islands. | |
| By W. B. Benham. | 220 |
| The Anatomy and Systematic Position of Temnocephala novaezealandiae Haswell. | |
| By Marion L. Fyfe. | 253 |
| A Study of the Little Owl, Athene noctua in New Zealand. | |
| By B. J. Marples. | 237 |
| Descriptions of Two New Species of Lepidoptera. | |
| By W. George Howes. | 371 |
| New Records of Collembola from N.Z. with Descriptions of New Genera and Species. | |
| By J. T. Salmon | 373 |
| Obituary. | |
| Arthur William Hill | XXXVI |
| Proceedings. | |
| Annual Meeting | I |
| Presidential Address | XXIX |
| Appendix (Abstracts of Papers presented to Branches) | XXXIV |
