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Contents. 



Aet. XVII. Notes on the New Zealand Bats. By T. P. Cheese- pages 

 man, F.L.S. .. .. .. .. 218-222 



XVIII. Note on the Occurrence of LopJiotes in New Zealand 



Waters. By T. JefEery Parker, D.Sc, F.R.S. . . 223 



XIX. Notes on Three Moa-skulls, probably referable to 

 the Genus Pachyornis, By Professor T. Jeffery 

 Parker .. .. .. .. .. 223-225 



XX. Eesult of a Further Exploration of the Bone-fissure 



at the Castle Rocks, Southland. By A. Hamilton 22G-229 

 XXI. Materials for a Bibliography of the Dinornithidm, the 

 Great Extinct Birds of New Zealand, usually 

 called Moas. By A. Hamilton . . . . 229-257 



II. — Botany. 



XXII. Description of a New Species of Pimclea. By T. 



Kirk, F.L.S. .. .. .. ..259-260 



XXIII. Description of New Cyperaceous Plants, chiefly from 



the Nelson Provincial District. By T. Kirk . . 260-263 

 XXIV. Remarks on the New Zealand Sow-thistles, with 



Description of a New Species. By T. Kirk . . 263-266 

 XXV. Descriptions of New Native Plants, &c. By D. 



Pctrie, M.A., F.L.S. .. .. .. ..266-274 



XXVI. On Four New Species of New Zealand Miisci. By 



T. W. Naylor Beckett, F.L.S. . . . . . . '2n^-^ll 



XXVII. On some Little-known New Zealand Mosses. By 



T. W. Naylor Beckett . . . . . . 277-288 



XXVIII. Notes on New Zealand Mosses : Genus Pottia. By 



R. Brown . . . . . . . . . . 288-296 



XXIX. Musci : Notes on the Genus Gymnostonium, with 



Descriptions of New Species. By R. Brown . . 296-301 

 XXX. Notes on some New Species of New Zealand Musci : 



Genus Phascum. By R. Brown . . . . 302-304 



XXXI. On Lessonia varicgata, J. Ag., Mscr. By Robert M. 



Laing, B.Sc. . . . . . . . . 304-310 



XXXII. On the Occurrence of XantMum strumarium, Linn., 



in New Zealand. By T. W. Kirk, F.L.S. . . 310-313 



XXXIII. Phccnogams : A Description of a few Newly-discovered 



Indigenous Plants ; being a Further Contribution 

 towards the making known the Botany of New 

 Zealand. By William Colenso, F.R.S. , F.L.S. 

 (Lond.), &c. . . . . . . . . . . 313-320 



XXXIV. A List of Fungi recently collected in the Bush Dis- 



trict, County of Waipawa ; being a Further Con- 

 tribution to the Indigenous Flora of New Zealand. 

 By W. Colenso . . . . . . . . 320-323 



XXXV. Notes, Remarks, and Reminiscences of Two Peculiar 

 Introduced and Naturalised South American 

 Plants. By W. Colenso . . . . , . 323-332 



XXXVI. On Four Notable Foreign Plants. By W. Colenso . . 333-346 



III. — Geology. 



XXXVII. The Nelson Earthquake of the 12th February, 1893. 



By George Hogben . . . . . . . . 347-354 



XXXVIII. On a New Plesiosaur from the Waipara River. By 

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

 Canterbury IMuseum . , . . . . . . 354-358 



XXXIX. OnConcliothyra^parasitica. By Captain F.W. Hutton 358-359 



