viii Contents. 



IV. — Miscellaneous. 



Art. LIX. Magnetization of Iron by High-frequency Dis- pages 

 charges. By E. Rutherford, M. A. .. ..481-513 



LX. The Last Glacial Epoch : explained by Major-Gene- 

 ral Drayson's Discovery of the Second Rotation of 

 the Earth. By Major-General Schaw, C.B., R.E. 513-534 

 LXI. On some Peculiar Cases of the Reflection of Light. 



By Major-General Schaw . . . . . . 535-538 



LXII. The Immortality of the Cosmos; being an Attempt 

 to show that the Theory of the Dissipation of 

 Energy is limited to Finite Portions of Space. 

 By Professor Bickerton . . . . . . 538-545 



LXIII. Synoptic Statement of the Principles and Pheno- 

 mena of Cosmic Impact: prepared for the Cri- 

 ticism of Scientific Men and Societies. By 

 Professor Bickerton . . . . . . . . 545-553 



LXIV. On an Oversight in Croll's Mode of lengthening the t 



Age of the Sun's Heat. By Professor Bickerton 558-559 

 LXV. Notes on a Visit to Macquarie Island. By A. 



Hamilton .. .. .. .. .. 559-579 



LXVI. Myths of Observation. By Edward Tregear . . 579-593 



LXVII. Ceremonial Language. By Edward Tregear . . 593-597 



LXVIII. The Modern History of a Block of Greenstone. By 



W. Colenso, P.R.S., &c. .. .. . . 59S-606 



LXIX. Notes on Tombs of a Prehistoric Race of Colombia, 



South America. By R. I. Kingsley . . . . 606-609 



LXX. Maori Preserved Heads. By the Rev. Philip Walsh 610-616 

 LXXI. Some Account of the Earliest Literature and Maps 

 relating to New Zealand. By Dr. T. M. Hocken, 

 F.L.S. .. .. .. .. .. 616-634 



I. — Zoology— continued. 



LXXII. On a New Species of Ant from New Zealand. By 

 Professor C. Emery, University of Bologna, Italy : 

 communicated by W. W. Smith . . . . 635-636 



NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE. 



Twenty-sixth Annual Report . . . . . . . . 639-640 



Accounts for 1893-94 . . . . . . . . . . 640 



PKOCEEDINGS. 



WELLINGTON PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



The Humist Doctrine of Causation in its Relation to Modern 



Agnosticism. By W. W. Carlile, M.A. . . . . . . 646-647 



Resolution as to Dr. C V.Riley .. .. .. .. 649 



On the Milk-supply of Wellington. By C. Hulke . . . . 654 



