CONTENTS 



TEANSACTIONS. 



I. — Miscellaneous. 



PAGES 



Art. I. Presidential Address. By James Stewart, C.E. .. 1-17 

 II. On the Senses of Insects. By G. V. Hudson .. 18- 31 



III. Notes on the Comet of April, May, and June, 1901. 



By G. V. Hudson . . . . . . . . 31- 33 



IV. The Diversions of the Whare Tapere : Some Account 



o£ the various Games, Amusements, and Trials 

 of Skill practised by the Maori in Former Times. 

 By Elsdon Best . . . . . . . . 34- 69 



V. Maori Magic : Notes upon Witchcraft, Magic Rites, 

 and various Superstitions as practised or believed 

 in by the Old-time Maori. By Elsdon Best . . 69- 98 

 VI. The Beginnings of Literature in New Zealand : 

 Part II., the English Section — Newspapers. By 

 Dr. T. M. Hocken, P.L.S. .. .. .. 99-114 



VII. On the Recent Statistics of Insanity, Cancer, and 

 Phthisis in New Zealand. By H. W. Segar, 

 M.A., Professor of Mathematics, University Col- 

 lege, Auckland . . . . . . . . 115-123 



VIII. On some Relics of the Moriori Race. By Arthur 

 Dendy, D.Sc, P.L.S. , Professor of Biology in the 

 Canterbury College, University of New Zealand . . 123-134 

 IX. A Philological Study in Natural History. By Taylor 



White .. .. .. .. .. 135-145 



II. — Zoology. 



X. On the New Zealand Lamprey. By Arthur Dendy, 

 D.Sc, Professor of Biology in the Canterbury 

 College; and Margaret P. Olliver, M. A. .. 147-149 



XL Note on an Entire Egg of a Moa, now in the Museum 

 of the University of Otago. By Professor W. B. 

 Benham, D.Sc, M.A., P.Z.S., University of Otago 149-151 

 XII. An Account of the External Anatomy of a Baby 

 Rorqual (Balcenoptera rostrata). By Professor 

 W. B. Benham .. .. .. .. 151-155 



XIII. Notes on Cogia breviceps, the Lesser Sperm Whale. 



By Professor W. B. Benham . . ' . . . . 155-168 



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