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Contents. 



Abstract of Annual Report .. 



Election of Oflficers for 1900 



Explorations in Te Anau District. By A. C. Gilford . . 



Notes on Virginian Quail imported by the Acclimatisation So- 

 ciety. By Sir J. Hector 



On Cobweb-covered Head gear from New Hebrides. By E. Tregear 



On a Cliatham Island Ownership Log 



On Centipedes collected from Bananas 



On Now Zealand Freshwater Crayfish 



Presentation to the Museum of Relics of the First New Zealand 

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AUCKLAND INSTITUTE. 



On Capital and Modern Progress. By J. Batger 



On the Electric Spark. By Professor F. D. Brown 



On Water supply and Disease-germs. By Dr. R. H. Makgill 



On Ruaiiehu and its Neighbourhood. By P. Marshall, F.G.S 



On the Coming Star Showers. By Professor H. W. Segar 



On " The Novel." By Professor C. W. Egerton 



Some Experiments in Radiant Heat. By E. V. Miller 



On Rarotonga : its Scenery, Vegetation, and Native Inhabitant: 



By T. F. Cheeseman,"P.L.S. 

 Abstract of Annual Report .. 

 Election of Officers for 1900 



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PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTE OF CANTERBURY. 



On the Life-history of Words. By Professor Arnold Wall . . 433 



Description of a Trephined Maori Skull. By Captain Hutton, 



F.R.S. .. .. .. .. .. .. 433 



On Wireless Telegraphy. By J. S. S. Cooper . . . . . . 433 



Exhibit of Flowers of Garrya elliptica, by R. Nairn . . . . 434 



Re.solutioD regarding Death of Mr. R. W. Fereday .. .. 434 



On Damage to Forest Trees by the Drought of 1897-98. By 



T. W. Adams .. .. .. .. .. .. 434 



On some Recent Developments in Mechanical Engineering. By 



J. L. Scott . . . . . . . . . . . . 434 



On a New Form of Ether Saturator. By Dr. Evans . . . . 434 



Exhibit of Clematis attacked by Fungus, by Professor Dendy . . 435 



Abstract of Annual Report .. .. .. .. .. 435 



Election of Officers for 1900.. .. .. .. .. 436 



On some Little-known Country in the Waimakariri District. By 



L. Cockayne . . . . . . . . . . . . 436 



Exhibit of Flowering Anigozanthus from Swan River, by R. 



Nairn.. .. .. .. .. .. .. 436 



On the Formation of Starch by Green Plants in Sunlight. By 



Professor Dendy . . . . . . . . . . 436 



On Peripatus viridimaculatus, n.s. By Professor Dendy . . 436 



OTAGO INSTITUTE. 



List of Exhibits . . . . . . , . . . . . 437 



Kotornis exhibited, by Professor Benlam . . . . . . 437 



On the Ultimate Vital Unit. By Professor Benham . . . . 437 



Notice of Death of Mr. A. E. Purdie . . . . . . . . 438 



Notice of Difccovery of Complete Mca Egg. By F. R. Chapman 438 



