CONTENTS 



TRANSACTIONS. 



I. — Miscellaneous. pages 



Art. I. Early Native Records of the Manawatu Block. By 



P. E. Baldwin . . . . . . . . 1-1 1 



XVIII. Maori Place-names, with Special Beference to the 

 Great Lakes and Mountains of the South Island. 

 By James Cowan . . . . . . . . 113-120 



XIX. Some Historic Maori Personages. By T. W. Downes 120-127 

 XX. The Winged Pilot of Hawaiki. By Archdeacon 



Walsh .. .. .. .. .. 127-130 



XXI. On a Stone-carved Ancient Wooden Image of a 



Maori Eel-god. By A. K. Newman . . .. 130-134 



XXII. On the Musical Notes and Other Features of the Long 

 Maori Trumpet. By A. K. Newman. And 

 Notes on the Maori Trumpet, by W. H. Warren 134-139 

 XXV. Maori Eschatology : The Whare Potae (House of 

 Mourning) and its Lore ; being a Description of 

 many Customs, Beliefs, Superstitions, Rites, &c, 

 pertaining to Death and Burial among the Maori 

 People, as also some Account of Native Belief in 

 a Spiritual World. By Elsdon Best .. .. 148-239 



LV. Notes upon a Find of Kauri - gum in Rangitikei, 



Wellington Province. By S. A. R. Mair . . 499-501 



II. — Zoology. 



XL Notes on the Hemiptera of the " Index Fauna? Novse- 



Zealandia>." By G. W. Kirkaldy . . . . 61-62 



XII. Note on a Water- beetle found in Sea- water. By 



Charles Chilton . . . . . . . . 63 



XIII. On the Occurrence of Metoponorthus pruinoxits, 



Brandt, in New Zealand. By Charles Chilton . . 64-65 

 XVI. Results of Dredging on the Continental Shelf of New 



Zealand. By Charles Hedley . . . . 68-76 



XVII. On some Foraminifera and Ostracoda obtained off 

 Great Barrier Island, New Zealand. By 

 Frederick Chapman .. .. .. 77-112 



XXVL Additional Notes on the Earthworms of the North 



Island of New Zealand. By W. B. Benham . . 239-245 

 XXVII. On a Large Pterotracheid from the Pacific Ocean. 



By W. B. Benham . . . . . . . . 245 248 



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