Contents. vii 



III. — Geology. 

 Art. pages 



XL. Corrections in the Names of some New Zealand Rocks. 

 By Captain F. W. Hutton, F.R.S., Curator of the 

 Canterbury Museum . . . . . . . . 483-484 



XLI. On a Supposed Rib of the Kumi, or Ngarara. By 



Captain F. W. Hutton . . . . , . 485 



XLII. On the Footprint of a Kiwi-like Bird from Manaroa. 



By Captain F. W. Hutton . . . . , . 486 



XLIII. Notes on a West Coast Dolerite. By W. A. MacLeod, 



B.Sc. .. .. .. .. .. 487-488 



XLIV. Notes on a Hvpersthene Andesite from White Island. 



By W. A. MacLeod .. .. .. ..488-489 



XLV. Notes on a Hornblende Trachyte from Tawhetarangi. 



By W. A. MacLeod . . . . . . . . 490-491 



XLVI. On Occurrences of Gold in the Coromandel District. 



By J. M. Maclaren, B.Sc. .. .. ..492-493 



XLVII. On the Geology of Te Moehau. By J. M. Mac- 

 laren . . . . . . . . . . 494-498 



XLVIII. Some Notes on the Volcanoes of the Taupo District. 

 By Benedict Friedlaender, Ph.D., of Berlin. 

 Communicated by T. F. Cheeseman, F.L.S. .. 498-510 

 XLIX. The Volcanoes of the Pacific. By Coleman Phillips 510-551 

 L. On the Artesian Wells at Longburn. By J. March- 

 banks, .■\.M.I.C.E. .. .. .. .. 551-554 



IV. — CHEMI3TBY AND PhYSICS. 



LI. An Instrument for roughly determining the Relative 

 Thermometric Conductivities of Liquids. By 

 Dr. W. P. Evans . . . . . . . . 555-556 



LII. On the Distillation Products of the Blackball Coal. 



By Dr. W. P. Evans . . . . . . . . 556-557 



LIII. Contact Metamorphism at the New Brockley Coal- 

 mine (Malvern Hills). By Dr. W. P. Evans ..557-564 

 LIV. Analyses (Technical) of New Zealand Coals. By 



Dr. W. P. Evans . . . . . . . . 564-565 



LV. On the Apparent Occlusion of Sulphuretted Hydrogen 



in a Bituminous Coal. By Dr. W. P. Evans . . 566-567 

 LVI. On the Interaction of Cyclones upon one another. 



By Major-General Schaw, C.B., R.E. . . . . 567-569 



LVII. Further Light on the Circulation of the Atmosphere 

 in the Southern Hemisphere. By Major-General 

 Schaw .. .. .. .. .. 570-576 



LVIII. On Seasonal Time. By G. V. Hudson . . . . 577-583 



LIX. The Wanganui Earthquake of the 8th December, 

 1897. By George Hogben, M.A., Secretary of the 

 Seismological Committee of the Australasian 

 Association for the Advancement of Science . . 583-590 

 LX. Notes on the Comparison of some Elements of 

 Earthquake Motion as observed in New Zea- 

 land, with their Theoretic Values. By George 

 Hogben .. .. .. .. .. 590-593 



LXI. The Tasmanian Earthquake of the 27th January, 



1892. By George Hogben .. .. .. 594-601 



LXII. A Graphic Method of calculating Cubic Content of 

 Excavation, as for Water-races on Uneven 

 Ground. By George Hogben . . , . . . 602-603 



