618 Index. 



Park, J. — page 

 The Relationship of the Upper Cretaceous and Lower Cainozoic Formations 



of New Zealand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392 



The Rate of Erosion of Hooker and Mueller Glaciers, New Zealand. . . . 395 



On a New Species of Coral from the Lower Oamaruian Tuffs near Deborah, 



Oamaru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396 



Petrie, D. — Descriptions of New Native Flowering- plants, with some Notes on 



Known Species . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 



Philpott, A. — 



A List of the Lepidoptera of Otago . . . . . . . . . . 195 



Descriptions of New Species of Lepidoptera . . . . . . . . 239 



Poppelwell, D. L. — 



Botanical Results of an Excursion to the Upper Makarora Valley and the 



Haast Pass, supported by a List of the Species observed . . 161 



Notes of a Botanical Excursion to Long Island, near Stewart Island, including 



a List of Species .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 167 



Scott, R. J. — 



Apparatus for the Determination of the Magnitude of Small Forces, especially 



useful in connection with Hydraulic Experiments . . . . . . 496 



An Arrangement for quieting the Flow of a Stream of Disturbed Water . . 498 



Speight, R. — 



The Stratigraphy of the Tertiary Beds of the Trelissick or Castle Hill Basin . . 321 



An Unrecorded Tertiary Outlier in the Basin of the Rakaia . . . . 356 



An Ancient Buried Forest near Riccarton : its Bearing on the Mode of For- 66 



mation of the Canterbury Plains . . . . . . . . 31 



The Geology of Banks Peninsula. . . . . . . . . . . 365 



Sitter, H. — On the Origin of a New Species by Isolation . . . . . . 279 



Symes, L. P. — Note on the Fluctuation of Water-level in a Christchurch Artesian 



Well .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..493 



Thomson, J. A. — 



Diastrophic and other Considerations in Classification and Correlation, and 



the Existence of Minor Diastrophic Districts in the Notocene . . . . 397 



The Hawera Series, or the So-called " Drift Formation " of Hawera. . . . 414 



Traill, W.— Effects of the Snowstorm of the 6th September, 1916, on the Vegeta- 

 tion of Stewart Island . . . . . . . . . . 51 8 



Vahghan, T. W. — -Some Corals from Kermadec Islands . . . . . . 275 



Wild, L. J. — On the Proposal for a Soil Survey of New Zealand . , . . 476 



Wild, L. J., and Anderson, J. G. — On the Absorption of Lime by Soils : An 

 Investigation of the Hutchinson-MacLennan Method of determining the Lime 

 Requirements of Soils . . . . . . . . . . . . 466 



Marcus F. Marks, Government Printer, Wellington. — 1917. 



