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C O N T E IN T S 



TRANSACTIONS. 



I. — MiSCKLLANEOUS. 



J'AGIOS 



Art. I. The Middle Voice in Latin. By Henry Belcher, 



Fellow of King's College, London, Rector of the 

 High School, Otago .. .. .. .. 1-20 



II. Notes on the Land-system of the Iliad. By Henry 



Belcher . . . . . . . . . . 21- ?A 



III. Bacteria and their Relation to Disease. By Isaiah 



de Zouche, ^l.D., President of the Otago Insti- 

 tute . . . . . . . . . . ;J1- 5.J 



IV. Remarks on Pathogenic ^Microbes, and the ]Means of 



preventing Diseases originating in their Intro- 

 duction into the System. By W. T. L. Travers, 

 F.L.S. 

 V. The Newly-opened Cave near Sumner. By .John 

 Meeson, B.A. 

 VI. On the Disappearance of the Moa. By Major W. CI. 

 ]Mair . . . . . . " . . 



VII. The Moriori. By Edward Tregear, F.R.G.S. 

 VIII. Notes on Great Barrier Island. By Sidney Weet- 

 man, F.R.G.S. 

 IX. Tongarewa, or Penrhyn Island, and its People. By 

 S. Percy Smith, F.R.G.S. 

 X. Notes on some Relics of Cannibalism. By H. D. 



M. Haszard 



XI. Description of a Meteor, of 4th May, 1888. By Tay- 

 lor White . . . . . . . . . . 105-108 



XII. Shadow-pictures. By Taylor White . . . . 108-111 



XIII. On Maori Proverbs. By Judge T. H. Smith . . 111-118 



XIV. A Mysterious Therapeutic Agent. By E. A. ]Mac- 



kechnie .. .. .. .. .. 119-12'J 



XV. On Terrestrial Magnetism. By the Hon. Robert 



Hart .. .. .. .. .. 129-131 



II. — Zoology. 



XVI. Further Notes on CoccididiC, with Descriptions of New 

 Species from Australia, Fiji, and New Zealand. 

 By W. M. Maskell, F.R.M.S., Corr. Mem. Roy. 

 Soc. of South Australia . . . . . . 13.3-1.5G 



XVII. On some Species of PsylUda: in New Zealand. By 



W. M. Maskell .. .. .. .. J.07-17O 



XVIII. On some Alcurodidcc from New Zealand and Fiji. 



By W. M. Maskell . . . . . . . . 170-170 



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