710 



Index. 



New Zealand Institute, Governors 

 of, xiii. 



New Zealand Institute, Honorary 

 Members of, 692 



New Zealand Institute, Incorpo- 

 rated Societies of, xvi. 



New Zealand Institute, Memoran- 

 dum on, 629 



New Zealand Institute, Officers of, 

 xiii. 



New Zealand Institute, Ordinary 

 Members of, 693 



New Zealand Institute : Keport, 627 



New Zealand Institute, Eules of, 

 xiii. 



Noogoora burr of Australia, 310, 653 



Nova Aurigse, Note on, 674 



0. 



Occultations and Solar Eclipses, A 

 New Method of projecting, 477, 

 659 

 OpMuridcs, A New Species of, 109 

 Opuntia ficus-indica, 326 

 Orchids, New Zealand, 679 

 Ornithological Notes, 181, 182, 654, 



678, 679. (See also Birds) 

 Ossiferous Clay from Queen Char- 

 lotte Sound, 654 

 Osteology of the Maori and Moriori, 1 

 Otago Institute, xvii., 676, 679, 680, 

 698 



P. 



Pachyornis, 223 



Papaitonga, The Story of, 572 



Pebbles and Drifting Sand, 397 



Pcripatiis novcB-zealandicB, 653 



Phsenogams, 313 



Phascum, On the Genus, 302 



Phytomyza affinis injurious to 

 Plants, 663 



Piako River-basin, Geology of, 398 



Pig-fish, Anatomy of. 111 



Pimdca, A New Species of, 259 



Plantain, 334 



Plant -growth affected by Elec- 

 tricity, 463 



Plants introduced to New Zealand, 

 310, 323 



Plants, New, 266, 313 



Plesiosaur, A New, 354 



Pottia, On the Genus, 288 



Prickly-pear, 326 



Proceedings of Incorporated Socie- 

 ties, 633 



Puka-tree injured by Rats, 667 



R. 



Rail from the Auckland Islands, A 



New, 180 

 Rainbows, Further Note on, 481, 



653 

 Rainbows, Observations on, 545 

 Rats injurious to Trees, 667 

 Resolution Island as a Reserve for 



Birds, 676 

 Rock-paintings at Albury, 657 

 Rose of Jericho, 344 

 Ruapehu, On the Volcanic District 



of, 483 



S. 



Sand-worn Pebbles, 397 

 Savagery, The Persistence of, 669 

 School-teaching, On, 452 

 Seismograph, On a Compound, 



461 

 Sewage : its Disposal by Application 



to the Soil, 517, 650 

 Skeleton revealed by Dew, 544, 



655 

 Sleep, Mental Operations in, 658, 



687 

 Snake imported from Fiji, 650 

 Sow-thistles of New Zealand, 263, 



666 

 Spiders as Engineers, 600, 659 

 Spiders : How they walk on Water, 



683 

 Spiders, Notes on, 107 

 Spiders of New Zealand, 204 

 Sponges of New Zealand, 175, 



661 

 Spontaneous Combustion, 654 

 Sumner, On the Supposed Fire-drill 



found at, 516 



T. 



Tennyson and Browning : A Retro- 

 spect of Victorian Poetry, 548 



Tongariro, On the Volcanic District 

 of, 483 



Tongariro, Volcanic Outburst at, 

 388 



Trees injured by Rats, 667 



Tridymite - trachyte of Lyttelton, 

 368 



Tuberculosis in Man and Animals, 

 526, 660 



Vanilla planifolia, 333 

 Victorian Era, Poetry of the, 548 



