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CONTENTS, 



Roll of Honour 

 Presidential Address 



pages 

 xxi-xxiii 



xxv-xxxiv 



ANTHROPOLOGY. 



Art. I. The Maori Genius for Personification ; with Illustrations of Maori 



Mentality. By Elsdon Best, F.N.Z.Inst. . . . . 1-13 



XLVIII. Maori Food-supplies of Lake Rotorua, with Methods of obtaining 

 them, and Usages and Customs appertaining thereto. By 

 Te Rangi Hiroa (P. H. Buck), D.S.O., M.D. . . . . 433-451 



XLIX. Maori Decorative Art : No. 1, House-panels (Arapaki, Tuitui, or 



Tukutuku). By Te Rangi Hiroa (P. H. Buck), D.S.O., M.D. 452-470 



L. An Account of a (supposed Maori) Sharpening-stone. By Robert 



Fulton, M.D. . . . . . . . . . . . . 471-472 



BOTANY. 



Art. XL. Notes on Specimens of New Zealand Ferns and Flowering-plants 

 in London Herbaria. By W. R. B. Oliver, F.L.S., F.Z.S., 

 Dominion Museum, Wellington . . . . . . . . 362-365 



XL1. Descriptions of New Native Flowering-plants, with a few Notes. 



By D. Petrie, M.A., Ph.D., F.N.Z.Inst. . . . . . . 365-371 



XLIL The Genus Cordyceps in New Zealand. By G. H. Cunningham . . 372-382 



XLIII. Unrecorded Plant-habitats for the Eastern Botanical District of 



the South Island of New Zealand. By W. Martin, B.Sc. . . 383-385 



XLIV. Further Studies on the Prothallus, Embryo, and Young Sporo- 

 phyte of Tmesipteris. By the Rev. J. E. Holloway, D.Sc, 

 F.N.Z.Inst., Hutton Memorial Medallist . . . . . . 386-422 



XLV. New Species of Flowering-plants. By T. F. Cheeseman, F.L.S., 



F.Z.S., F.N.Z.Inst., Curator of the Auckland Museum . . 423-425 



XL VI. New Plant-stations. By A. Wall, M.A., Professor of English, 



Canterbury College . . . . . . . . . . 426-428 



XLVII. On Growth-periods of New Zealand Trees, especially Nothofagus 

 fusca and the Totara (Podocarpus totara). By H. B. Kirk, 

 M.A., F.N.Z.Inst., Professor of Biology, Victoria University 

 College .. .. .. .. .. .. 429-432 



GEOLOGY. 



Art. IV. Notes on a Geological Excursion to Lake Tekapo. By R. Speight, 

 M.A., M.Sc, F.G.S., F.N.Z.Inst., Curator of the Canterbury 

 Museum 



V. The Modification of Spur-ends by Glaciation. By R. Speight, M.A., 

 M.Sc, F.G.S., F.N.Z.Inst., Curator of the Canterbury Museum 



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