SUBANTARCTIC ISLANDS OF XEW ZEALAND. 



[Historica/. 



The remaining facts with reference to the scientific investigation of these islands 

 can be now briefly reUited. 



In June, 1879. owing to the kind offer of Captain Townsend, R.N., of H.M.S. 

 " Nymphe," Captain Hutton, who was then Curator of the Otago Museum, was able 

 to send Mr. Jennings, the taxidermist, to collect at Auckland and Campbell Islands. 

 Mr. Jennings had two days and a half for collecting at Port Ross, in the Auckland 

 Islands, but only about an hour and a half at Campbell Island. Tlie collections 

 made were described by Captain Hutton in a paper publislu'd in the " Transactions 

 of the New Zealand Institute " for 1879. 



'Taken at the liiiiding-place. Disappointment Island, where it was abandoned after the return from Auckland 



Island. I 



More than twenty years afterwards — in December, 1900 — Captain Hutton 

 was able to visit the islands in person, when Lord Ranfurly made an excursion 

 to them in the Government steamer. His results were published in various 

 papers in the vohime of the " Transactions of the New Zealand Institute "' for 

 1901. 



^' "'Sir James Hector and Professor T. J. Parker accompanied the Government 

 steamer on her trip to the islands in 1895. and made collections there. An account 

 of the trip, dealing chiefly with tlie geology, was given by Sir James Hector in a 

 lecture to the Wellington Philosophical Institute. (Trans. N.Z. Inst.. 1895, p. 738.) 



