viii Contents. 



NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE. 



PAGES 



Twenty-third Annual Eeporb, 1890-91 . . . . . . 679-680 



Accounts for 1890-91 . . . . . . . . . . 680 



Memorandum regarding the New Zealand Institute . . . . 681-683 



PEOCEEDINGS. 



WELLINGTON PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



Inaugural Address by the President, E. Tregear, F.R.G.S. . . 687-688 



Notice of Salmon caught in Aparima River. By Sir J. Hector. . 688 



On the Coalfields of New Zealand. By Sir J. Hector . . . . 688 



Views of Old New Zealand . . . . . . . . . . 691 



Geology of the Kaikouras. By Sir J. Hector . . . . . . 693 



Notice of the Appearance of the Horse- or Bot-fly. By W. M. 



Maskell .. .. .. .. .. .. 696 



Mr. A. Koebele and his Study of Blight-destroyers . . . . 696-697 



On Stereo-chemistry, or the Arrangement of Atoms; being the 



Latest Phase in the Development of the Atomic Theory. 



By W. P. Evans, M.A., Ph.D. .. .. .. ..697-698 



Annual Report and Balance-sheet . . . . . . . . 700 



Election of Officers for 1892 . . . . . . . . . . 700 



Vote of Thanks to the Retiring President . . . . . • 700 



AUCKLAND INSTITUTE. 



Anniversary Address by the President, Professor F. D. Brown . . 702-703 

 Notes on the Discovery of some Ancient IMaori Relics at Parua 



Bay, Whangarei. By A. J. Millar . . . . . . 704-705 



New Species of Coleoptera, Part I. By Captain T. Broun, P. E.S. 705 



Presentations to the Museum .. .. .. •• 705 



New Species of Coleoptera, Part II. By Captain T. Broun, P.E.S. 705 



Pasteur, Koch, and their Work. By Professor A. P. Thomas, 



F.L.S. .. 706 



Descriptions of New Species-of Coleoptera, Part III. By Captain 



T. Broun, P.E.S. .. .. .. .. -. 706 



Note to accompany a Specimen of Kauri Timber taken from a 



Cottage erected more than Fifty Years ago. By Dr. J. L. 



Campbell .. .. .. .. .. •• 706-707 



Exhibition of Old Kauri Flooring. By E. Bartley . . . . ^707 



Annual Report and Balance-sheet . . . . . . • • 707-708 



Election of Officers for 1892 . . . . . . . . . . 708 



PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTE OP CANTERBURY. 



Hypnotism. By Robert M. Laing, M.A., B.Sc. .. .. 709 



Note of the Occurrence in New Zealand of the English Spotted 



'F\yca.tc\ic^ {Muscicapa grisola). By Professor Hutton .. 710 



Annual Report and Balance-sheet . . . . . . • • 711 



Election of Officers for 1892 . . . . . . . . . . 711 



