658 



Index. 



SUBJECTS. 



Africa, On South, 617 



Alkaline Solutions, Oxidation of 



Iron in, 584 

 Aninial Mind and Human Mind 



compared, 71 

 Antarctic Exploration, 111, 599 

 Anti-toxins, On, 618 

 Arancoi of New Zealand, 284 

 Arctic Adventure and Theories, 631 

 Argon, 125 

 Art, Historical Development of 



Domestic, 622 

 Artesian Water Prospects at Poverty 



Bay, 567 

 Auckland Institute, xvi., 616, 618, 



621, 644 

 Australasian Weather-charts, 61, 



605 

 Australia, Rain of Blood in, 613 

 Aztec Statuary, Notes on a Piece of, 



628 



B. 



Biology, On Recent Progress in, 



625 

 Birds of New Zealand, 179, 252, 



284, 629, 635 

 Birds of the Chathams, On the 



Extinct, 162, 632 

 Blackbird, A Mottled, 635 

 Botanical Papers, 333 

 Bromine Method of estimating 



Sulphur in Gaseous Compounds, 



573 

 Brunner Mine Disaster, 602 



C. 



Cavipylopus, New Species of, 465 

 Canterbury Philosophical Institute, 



xvii., 622, 624, 625, 647 

 Carlyle, On, 617 

 Carviichaelia and Allied Species, 



Notes on, 501 

 Carter, Charles Rooking, 602 

 Chatham Islands, Extinct Birds of, 



162, 632 

 Chemical Manures, Experiments 



with, 588 

 Chemistry Papers, 573 

 Christchurch Gas, Sulphur in the, 



623 

 Cicadas of New Zealand, 280 

 Coal-mine, Disaster at the Brunner, 



602 



Coal Ships, Fires in, 100 

 Coast-line of North Island, Changes 



in, 564 

 Coccidce, New Species of, 293 

 Conductivity of Certain Substances, 



581 

 Cordyline, On the Edible, 600 

 Cyanogen, Chemical Position of, 



574, 576, 604, 607 



D. 



Delesseria, A New Species of, 446 

 Diadema nerina : Its Occurrence at 



Hamilton, 616 

 Dicranum, New Species of, 451 

 Dog of New Zealand, The Native, 



606, 633 

 Ducks of New Zealand, On the, 



252 



E. 

 Earthquakes in New Zealand in 



1890, 641 

 East Cape District, Botany of the, 



509, 614 

 Egypt, New Lights on Old, 632 

 Electric Discharge, On the, 626 

 Electricity, Conductivity of Certain 



Substances for Voltaic, 581 



F. 



Ferns, On New, 414 



Fire-raising by Friction, 628, 631 



Fires in Coal Ships, 100 



Fish-hatchery, Report on proposed, 

 626, 627 



Flora of the North Cape District, 

 333 



Flowering-plants of Otago, 421 



Flowers, Improvement of Wild, by 

 Artificial Selection, 623 



Fluorescence, On, 616 



Forests of New Zealand, Destruc- 

 tion of the, 490 



Formol for Preserving Specimens, 

 On, 288 



Fossil Remains from St. Bathan's, 

 628 



G. 



Gaseous Compounds, Bromine 

 Method of estimating Sulphur in, 

 573 



Gas, On Sulphur in the Christ- 

 church, 623 



