Contents. ix 



On Weather Forecasts and Storm-warnings. By T. F. Cheese- paoks 

 man, F.L.S. . . . . . . • • • • • • 'j42-.543 



On Animal Heat. By Dr. T. G. Davy . . 



Resolution regarding the Preservacion of the Native 

 Fauna 



On Electric Bleaching. By Professor F. D. Brown 



On Athletics in their Relation to Social Development. 

 Bond .. 



Abstract of Annual Report . . 



Election of Officers for 1890 . . 



PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTE OF CANTERBURY. 



Remarks on the Shoulder-girdles of Aptornis and Cncmiornis. 



By H. 0. Forbes, F.R.G.S. .. .. .. •• ^i4:o 



On Soils and Geological Fertilizers. By Professor Hutton . . .54-5 



On the Physical Characters, Climate, People, and Prospects of 

 the British Possessions in New Guinea, with some Personal 

 Experiences of Travel there. By H. O. Forbes . . . . -"JiS 



Abstract of Annual Report and Balance-sheet . . ■ . •~)4G 



Election of Officers for 1890.. .. .. •• •• -J^T 



Resolution inviting the Australasian Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science to meet in Christchurch . . . . . . -547 



On some Simple Experiments to illustrate Force, Energy, Mo- 

 mentum, &c. By Professor F. W. Bickerton . . . . ~A1 



A Method of explaining the Phenoraeiia of Dissociation, and 

 some of the Peculiarities of the Isothermals of Gases, by 

 means of Molecular Attraction. By Professor Bickerton . . .'j47 



On some of the Results of the Impact of Spherical Nebulte. By 



Professor Bickerton . . . . . . . . - • -547 



OTAGO INSTITUTE. 



Resolutions regarding Publication of a Flora of New Zealand 



A Chapter of German Literature. By Dr. Billau 



On the Development of the Kiwi. By Professor Parker 



Abstract of Annual Report and Balance-sheet 



Election of Officers for 1890. . 



548 

 .549 

 r>id 

 549 

 .549 



WESTLAND INSTITUTE. 



Abstract of Annual Report and Balance-sheet . . . . .5-50 



HAWKE'S BAY PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTE. 



On Movement and Sensation in Phxnts. By Dr. W. I. Spencer 5.51 



Exhibit of Diatomaceous Earth from Makaretu . . . . .551 

 A Legend of the Large Australian Screech-owl, called by the 



Australian Natives Ti-na-tinity. By T. Pine . . . . .551 



On Plants and Astrology. By A. Hamilton . . . . . . 551 



Notes on Two Birds recently shot at Napier. By A. Hamilton . . 552 



On the Diatomacese. By Dr. W. I. Spencer . . . . . . 553 



On Sponges, their Life-history. By A. Hamilton . . . . 553 



On some of the peculiar and little-known Arts of the Old New- 



Zealanders. By W. Colensc, F.R.S., F.L.S. .. .. .5.53 



On the Deposit of Moa-bones at Te Ante. By A. Hamilton . . 553 

 Contributions to the List of New Zealand Fishes, being a List of 



the Fishes recorded from the East Coast of New Zealand. 



By A. Hamilton . . . . . . . • . . 553 



Abstract of Annual Report and Balance-sheet . . . . 554 



Election of Officers for 1890 . . . . • . . . 554 



