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Art. XLIV. Note on Hybrid Ferns. By H. C. Field .. ..372-373 



XLV. An Account of the Plants growing at " The Gums," 

 Taitfl, in Addition to List published in 1896. 

 By T. Mason . . . . . . ... 374-377 



XLVI. On New Species of Grasses from New Zealand. By 

 Professor E. Hackel. Communicated by T. F. 

 Cheeseman, F.L.S. .. .. .. ..377-385 



IV. — Geology. 



XLVII. The Kingston Moraine. By Dr. P. Marshall . . 388-391 



XLVIII. On the Geology of the Rock-phosphate Deposits of 

 Clarendon, Otago. By Professor James Park, 

 F.G.S., Director, Otago University School of 

 Mines . . . . . . . . . . 391-402 



XL1X. Notes on the Occurrence of Native Lead at Parapara, 



Collingwood. By Professor James Park .. 403-404 



V. — Chemistry and Physics. 



L. Notes on the Aurora in the Southern Hemisphere. 



By Henry Skey . . . . . . 405-408 



LI. On the Construction of a Table of Natural Sines by 

 Means of a New Relation between the Leading 

 Differences. By C. E. Adams, B.Sc. (Honours), 

 A. I. A., late Engineering Entrance Scholar and 

 Engineering Exhibitioner, Canterbury College ; 

 late Senior Scholar in Physical Science, New 

 Zealand University ; Lecturer on Applied Mathe- 

 matics ami Surveying, Lincoln College, and Ge- - 

 logy, Victoria College.. .. .. .. 408-413 



LII. Two Spherical Harmonic Relations. By C. Coleridge 



Farr, D.Sc. .. .. .. .. .. 414-415 



LIU. On the Interpretation of Milne Earthquake Diagram. 



By C. Coleridge Farr . . . . . . . . 415-419 



L1V. On the Use of the Standard Functions in Interpola- 

 tion. By E. G. Brown . . . . . . 420-427 



LV. On New Zealand Mean Time, and on the Longitude 

 of the Colonial Observatory, Wellington ; with a 

 Note on the Universal Time Question. By 

 Thomas King, Transit Observer, Colonial Ob- 

 servatory . . . . . . . . . . 428-451 



LVI. The Molecular Complexity of the Fatty Acids and 

 their Derivatives in Phenol Solution. By P. W. 

 Robertson, Sir George Grey Scholar, Victoria 

 College .. .. .. .. .. 452-465 



LVII. The Exhibition of a Maximum or Minimum in the 

 Properties of certain Series of Organic Compounds. 

 By P. W. Robertson . . . . . . . . 465-476 



LVIII. A Contribution to the Chemistry of Colophony. By 



T. H. Easterfield and G. Bagley . . . . 476-482 



I. — Miscellaneous — continued. 



LIX. On a Supposed Magnetic Sense of Direction in Bees. 



By F. W. Hilgendorf, M.A., B.Sc . . . . 483-489 



LX. List of Papers on the Geology of New Zealand. By 



A.Hamilton.. .. .. .. .. 489-546 



