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Art. LXIII. — Hand-list of certain Papers relating more or 

 less directly to the Maori Race, and published in various 

 Publications. 



By A. Hamilton. 



[Read before the Otago Institute, 9th October, 1900.'] 



This collection of titles of papers and publications of one 

 kind and another makes no pretence to be a bibliography of 

 the subject. A proper and complete bibliography would be 

 an undertaking far beyond the scope of this list. So far as 

 I have been able during the preparation of " Maori Art," 

 I have noted down for reference the various articles which 

 bear more or less directly on the subject, and at the close of 

 the work it occurred to me that subsequent workers in the 

 same field might deem it an advantage to have a reference- 

 list of those authors who have contributed items of informa- 

 tion, very often of considerable value, but which, perchance, 

 lie buried in the dusty depths of the local " Eatanswill 

 Gazette." Some of these I have dug up and recorded in 

 their place, and I have, as far as possible, gathered together 

 the titles of the ethnological papers in the " Transactions of 

 the New Zealand Institute" and in other serial publications. 

 It is in these Proceedings and Transactions of learned socie- 

 ties that we have to look for the work of many of the best 

 workers in the field of ethnology. As a typical instance, we 

 may take the case of the late Rev. W. Colenso, F.R.S., who, 

 although he was a most voluminous writer on many subjects, 

 never published any book on the Maori lore with which his 

 mind was stored, all his Maori writings being scattered up 

 and down in the pages of various Transactions and news- 

 papers. 



At some future date it would be a convenience to research 

 to have a subject-index compiled from these papers, but at 

 present it is out of my power to attempt such a task. As a 

 rule I have excluded anything that might be called a " book," 

 as these are to be found in various- library catalogues and 

 bibliographies. I have included, however, some small local 

 and private publications which might come under this head- 

 ing, for various reasons which seemed to me sufficient. 

 There are, besides the items listed, many interesting " Notes 

 and Queries," with their replies, in the volumes of the 

 "Polynesian Journal," and a number of articles in home 

 magazines such as the Leisure Hour, All the Year Round > 

 &c, which I have not read, but of which I have a list ex- 

 tracted from the volumes of Poole's Index. There are also 



