Contents - Volume 78, 1950

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.
  • Rules Relating to Publications
• Instructions to Authors of Papers
• Contents
• List of Plates

• Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand

  • Contents
    • Volume 78, Part 1
  • List of Plates

  • Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand

    • Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the Council, Held 25th May, 1948.
    • Reports of Member Bodies Wellington Branch of the Royal Society of New Zealand
  • Presidential Address By R. A. Falla, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S.N.Z.
    • Scientists and Conservation.

• Transactions

  • Notes on Synonymy Among New Zealand Insects—I
  • An Eroded Coastline
  • New Zealand Flycatchers of the Genus Petroica Swainson Part I
  • A “Loose-lying” Form of the Brown Alga Hormosira
  • Ascidians from Otago Coastal Waters
  • Some Unusual Shore Platforms near Gisborne, North Island, New Zealand
  • A New Species of Acridiidae (Insecta: Orthoptera) from New Zealand
  • Ctenophores from the Waters of Cook Strait and Wellington Harbour
  • A Triassic Echinoid from New Zealand
  • An Occurrence in Wellington Harbour of Cyclotrichium meunieri Powers, a Ciliate causing Red Water, with Some Additions to Its Morphology
  • New Species of New Zealand Bryophytes
  • Studies on New Zealand Hirudinea. Part 1 Pontobdella benhami n.sp.
  • The Epiphytic Orchids of New Zealand and a New Species of Pterostylis from Mount Egmont
  • Spilites, Serpentinites and Associated Rocks of the Mossburn District, Southland

• Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand

  • Contents
    • Volume 78, Parts 2 AND 3
  • List of Plates
  • New Zealand Flycatchers of the genus Petroica Swainson (Aves) Part II (Concluded from Vol. 78, Part I, page 47.)
  • Additions to the Rotatoria of New Zealand. Part III
  • The Family Peloridiidae (Hemiptera) and Its Occurrence in New Zealand
  • Auckland Island Coleoptera
  • Notes on Staphylinidae, Chiefly From New Zealand
  • Notes on Staphylinidae, Chiefly from New Zealand
  • The Molluscan Fauna of the Pahi Greensands, North Auckland
  • New Zealand Recent Thyasiridae (Mollusca)
  • The Geology of the Mokohinau Islands, North Auckland
  • A Post-Tertiary Micro-Fauna in a Concretion Containing Cancer novae-zealandiae
  • An Intrusion of Porphyrite near Waihao Forks, South Canterbury
  • Some Aspects of the Life History of the Liverwort Symphyogyna hymenophyllum (Hook.) M. et N.
  • The Reaction of Hydrogen Chloride With Dry Proteins Part 1—Collagen
  • Studies on the Freshwater Ciliates of New Zealand Part I A General Morphology of Bursaria Truncatella Muller
  • Studies on the Freshwater Ciliates of New Zealand PART II An Annotated List of Species From the Neighbourhood of Wellington
  • On Cryptochaeta, a New Genus of Earthworms; and a Nomenclatural Muddle Solved
  • Two New Zealand Rivers Following Tertiary Transverse Furrows
  • Antlerite, from Takitimu Mountains, New Zealand
  • Ascidians of New Zealand. Part IV Ascidians In the Vicinity of Christchurch
  • Ascidians of New Zealand. Part V Ascidians From the East Coast of Great Barrier Island
  • Studies of New Zealand Nothofagus 1. Taxonomy And Floral Morphology
  • OBITUARY Thomas Hill Easterfield (1866–1949)

• Transactions and proceedings of the Royal Society of new Zealand

  • Edited and Published Under the Authority of the Council of the Royal Society of new Zealand Issued November, 1950
  • Contents Volume 78, Part 4 Marine ecology
  • List of Plates
  • Ecological Study of Benhamina obliquata (Sowerby), A Basommatophorous Pulmonate in Otago Harbour
  • A Quantitative Study of Some Factors Affecting Tide Pools
  • Freshwater Triclads New to the Fauna of New Zealand
  • Stream Patterns in the Greymouth District By Maxwell Gage, Canterbury University College. [Read before the Canterbury Branch, June 1, 1949; received by the Editor, July 4, 1949.]
  • The Geology of the Northern Taringatura Hills, Southland
  • Occurrence of Lonchoptera dubia Curran in New Zealand (Diptera: Lonchopteridae)
  • The Struthiolariidae: Reproduction, Life History and Relationships
  • The Occurrence in New Zealand of the Enteropneust, Balanoglossus australiensis (Hill)
  • Slump Structures in the Waitemata Beds Around Auckland
  • (untitled)
  • A Vitreous Sedimentary Bomb from Pyroclastic Material at Auckland, New Zealand
  • The Type of the Ammonite Madrasites mckayi (Hector)
  • The Bryophytes of Stewart Island. Part II
  • Studies of the New Zealand Nothofagus Species 2. Nut and Cupule Development
  • Root System of the New Zealand Mangrove By G. T. S. Baylis, Botany Department, University of Otago [Read before the Otago Branch, November 8, 1949; received by the Editor, November 11, 1949.]
• Appendix.
  • List of Awards.
• The Royal Society of New zealand, Council for 1948–49
  • Honorary Patron.
  • Council. Ex Officio.
  • President.
  • Vice-President.
  • Government Representatives.
  • Elected By Member Bodies.
  • Co-opted Member.
  • Officers for the year 1947–48.
  • 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.