48 Transactions. 



Of these, the fourth was printed and issued with plates, being a descriptive 

 catalogue of fossil corals and Bryozoa sent to the Sydney Exhibition in 1879, 

 written by Rev. Tenison-Woods. 



One (the first) was to be on the belemnites ; and the plates for this 

 part were published in the " Transactions of the New Zealand Institute,"* 

 with an abstract of the descriptions by Sir James Hector. A sufficient 

 supply of extra plates was printed for the separate issue, and are still in 

 store. 



The same course seems to have been taken with the palaeozoic BracM- 

 opoda, although in this case additional plates are in existence besides those 

 that were printed for a separate issue. Three new genera, Rastelligera, 

 Psioidea, and Clavigera, are proposed in the abstract published.^ The plates 

 as prepared figure thirty-three species in thirteen genera. Plates v, vi, vii, 

 viii have not been printed, although the drawings are arranged. Besides 

 this there are drawings, not arranged, for about four more plates. A para- 

 graph on page 539 states that " These two papers " [on the fossil flora and 

 on the fossil Brachiopoda] " will appear in full in the report of the Geological 

 Survey Department now in the press " [January, 1879]. 



There is another paper in the form of a translation of Ettingshausen's 

 paper on the fossil plants of New Zealand. This appears in the Transac- 

 tions,J and a few copies were issued with separate pagination, and the extra 

 supply of plates was printed off and stored. 



It is possible that another palseontological report was in contemplation, 

 as there is an extra supply of plates printed corresponding to those of the 

 paper on the fossil Reptilia of New Zealand. § A number of blocks were 

 made of characteristic fossils from drawings by Buchanan — the draughtsman 

 to the Survey — and were used in the Catalogue and Guide to the Geological 

 Exhibits at the Indian and Colonial Exhibition in London in 1886. 



It is much to be regretted that apparently no manuscript by the late 

 Sir James Hector exists to enable his work to be taken up. I have been 

 able to identify the figures in Buchanan's drawings of the brachiopods by 

 the nvanber on the drawings and the number on the specimens still in the 

 case. Whether it is worth while to endeavour to retain these names remains 

 to be seen. The three genera proposed by Sir James are entitled to stand 

 so far as publication is concerned. A very large series of specific names 

 are used in the introductions to the annual reports of the Geological Sur- 

 vey ; but, as they have not been printed with any author's name, it is 

 difficult to identify them, especially as they are not attached to any speci- 

 men. 



The catalogue of the Tertiary Mollusca and Echinodermata by Captain 

 Hutton was issued in 1873. 



In the general collection at the Museum the only named specimens 

 are a few of Hutton's types of the Tertiary Mollusca, and the collection of 

 fish-teeth examined by Davis, || and a few of the reptilian remains which 

 can be identified by the published plates. Probably the plant-fossils named 

 by Ettingshausen are also still named, although they have been packed 



* Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. x, p. 484, pis. xxii, xxiii. 

 t Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. xi, p. 537. 



J Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. xxiii, p. 237, pis. xxiv:-xxxiii ; Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. xi, 

 p. 536. 



§ Trans. N.Z.. Inst., vol. vi, p. 333, pis. xxvii-xxxi. 

 il Trans. Royal Dublin See, vol. iv, ser. 2. 1888. 



