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NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE. 



Thirty-second Annual Report 

 Accounts for 1899-1900 



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PEOCEEDINGS. 



WELLINGTON PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



Notes on Additions to the Museum. By Sir James Hector 

 Description of Great Spider-crab (Paramicippa grandis). By Sir 



J. Hector 

 Remarks on the Chemistry of Tutu . . 

 Remarks on the Fog of 19th June 

 Remarks on the Papatu Cave, Ormondville 

 Remarks on Rats and Plague 



Notes on Recent Additions to the Museum. By Sir J. Hector 

 Early Explorations and Colonisation of Western Canada. By 



Sir J. Hector 

 On a Remarkable Lycopodium. By Sir J. Hector 

 Appreciation of the late William Skey 

 Motions of the Atmosphere in the Southern Hemisphere 

 The Regrowth of Totara 

 Notes on Natural-history Exhibits 

 On " Giotto's Circle " and Writing .. 

 On the Bite of the Katipo 



Remarks on Hydrides and other Sea-snakes. By Sir J. Hector 

 Remarks on Exhibits 



On Sponges from the Chatham Islands. By Sir J. Hector 

 On the Conservation of Native Birds : a Letter from Professor 



Newton, of Cambridge 

 Abstract of Annual Report .. 

 Election of Officers for 1901 



On Seismograms of Distant Earthquakes. By G. Hogben, M.A 

 Description of Exhibits. By Sir J. Hector 

 Remarks on a Supposed Specimen of Salmo salar. By Sir J 



Hector 

 Remarks on Photographs taken by R. Henry, cf the Reserve at 



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AUCKLAND INSTITUTE. 



The Rotomahana of To-day. By J. A. Pond 



Notes on the Ti Pore 



A Nation's Ingratitude. By E. A. Mackechnie 



The Sexual Theory in Plants. By Professor H. W. Segar 



On the Geology of the Auckland Domain. By P. Marshall, D.Sc. 



On Demccracy and Popular Government. By Dr. H. Macarthur 



The Relation between Light and Electric Force. By E. V. Miller 



On the Waitakerei Ranges. By Professor A. P. W. Thomas 



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