president's address. 871 



By Frederick Chapman, on Moa Keniaiiis in tlie Mackenzie 

 Country. This paper gives a lively account of the appearance 

 of Moa skeletons scattered about on the surface and more or less 

 decomposed, but in situ, and each with the monumental pile of 

 Gizzard stones, which in many cases has outlasted the coiiiplete 

 disappearance of the bird whose existence it commemorates, 

 p. 172. 



By U. B. Martin, Objections to the Introduction of Beasts of 

 Prey to destroy the Rabbit, p. 179. 



By D. J. Hudson, showing that the hypothesis of spontaneous 

 generation is unsupported by experiment, p. 182, 



By A. Reischell, Notes on the Ornithology of Dusky Sound, 

 N.Z., communicated by Dr. Hector, p. 187. 



James Park, Description of Octojnis, sp. nov., p. 198. 



By John Meeson, B.A., The Plague of Rats in Nelson and 

 Marlborough. These rats, which were almost entirely males, are 

 considered by the author to be of the species Kiore Maori (^Mus 

 Maornim Hutton), p. 199. 



By James Hector, C.M.G., M.D., F.R.S. Revision of the 

 Delphinid;e of the N.Z. Seas, p. 207. 



Botany. 



By T. Kirk, F.L.S., on the Flowering Plants of Stewart 

 Island, p. 214. On the Ferns and Fern allies of the same, p. 228. 

 On Aralia lyallil, n. sp., p. 293. On N. Z. Beeches, p. 297. 



By T. F. Cheeseman, F.L.S., Curator of the Auckland Museum, 

 on new species of Ranunculus and Mynsotis. 



By W. Colenso, F.L.S., New species of Ranunculus, Hoheria, 

 Hydrocotyle, Panax, Loranthus, Alseuosmia, Olearia, Gna'plialium, 

 Gnitiola, Ourisia, Fagus, Microtis, Caladenia, Tlielyinitra, 

 Callixene, Astelia, Juncus, Uncinia, Carex, Hymenopliyllum, and 

 several of the lower cryptogams, p. 237. Also list of Fungi lately 

 discovered in N. Z., p. 265. 



