568 



Index. 



Puhi Customs, 33 



Pukepoto, Blue Coiourmg-matter. 5 



E. 



Radiation, 530 



Radium and Radio-activity, 540 

 Regalecus parkeri, New Species, 198 

 Remedy for the Sparrow Plague, 67 

 Resin-acids, Constitution of, 528 

 Retirement of Sir James Hector, 



525, 534 

 Revision of the New Zealand Pho- 



rocera, 150 

 Rimu-resin, 483, 526 



S. 

 Sand-dunes, Auckland Islands, 236 

 Sheep-farms on Campbell Island, 



305 

 Sipunculids of New Zealand, 172 

 Sirsx found in Moulding, 539 

 Snares, The, 301 



Southern Islands of New Zealand : 

 A Botanical Excursion in Mid- 

 winter, 225 

 Southern Lepidoptera, Notes on, 161 

 South Pacific Cod, 524 

 Sparrow Plague, The, 67 

 Spectroscope, and its Use, 529 

 Starch in Timber, 528 

 Subalpine Meadows, Auckland 



Islands, 265 

 Subalpine Scrub, Auckland Islands, 

 267 



T. 

 Tareha, a Variety of Kokowai, 6 

 Tatimau, Maori Betrothal, 42 

 Taupo, Past and Present, 545 

 Taupo, a Variety of Kokowai, 7 



Theory. A : A Hundred Years in 



the History of, 523 

 Time-ball Observatory Report, 516, 



517 

 Trade, Trend of English, 493 

 Travers, W. T. L., Motion re Death 



of, 523 

 Trias of Nelson, 386 

 Trout, 251b. weight, exhibited, 525 

 Tuki, or Mouthpiece of Calabash, 3 

 Two New Flies, 153 



U. 

 JJrodynamis taitensis. Habits of, 113 



V. 



Vanessa atalanta in Southland, 161 

 Various Customs connected with 



Maori Marriage, 63 

 Veracity of Age-returns, Census of 



1891, 'New Zealand, 80 

 Viviparous Lizard, A, 545 



W. 



Waikouaiti, Geology of North Head, 



418 

 Wairoa, The Northern, 453 

 Wave Theory of Light, 487 

 Weka from Chatham Islands, 154 

 Wellington Philosophical Society — 



Annual Report of, 528 



Members of, 550 

 Westland Institute — 



Annual Report, 541 



Members, 556 



Officers, 542 

 Wharekuri, Fossils from, 465 

 Widows and the Levirate, 62 



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JOHM MACKAY, GOVBENMBNT PRINTER, WBLLINGtOK.— 1904. 



