REPORT OF COMMITTEE FOR BIOLOGICAL AND 

 HYDROGRAPHICAL STUDY OF THE NEW ZEA- 

 LAND COAST. 



Members of Committee. 



Captain Hutton 

 Professor Thomas 

 Mr. Hamilton 



Dr. Benham 

 Dr. Chilton (Secretary 

 and Convener). 



In presenting a progress report of the work done in connection 

 with the Biological and Hydrographical Study of the New Zealand 

 Coast, the Committee has, in the first place, to record with very great 

 regret the death of one of its members, Captain F. W. Hutton, F.R.S., 

 an ex-president of the Association, who had taken a keen and active 

 part in the work of the Association from its commencement. 



Immediately after the Dunedin meeting of the Association an 

 attempt was made by some members of the Committee, assisted by 

 Messrs. C. Hedley and G. M. Thomson, to dredge, on the Continental 

 Shelf, off Port Chalmers, but owing to unfavorable weather the attempt 

 was unsuccessful, and considerable gear was lost. The thanks of the 

 Committee are due to the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand 

 for the loan of deep-sea sounding apparatus and the services of two 

 of the officers to operate it. 



A second expedition was afterwards organised at Auckland, with 

 considerably better success. The spot chosen for operations was in 

 the vicinity of Cuvier Island, east of Great Barrier Island, in lat. 36° S. 

 and long. 175° 55' E., and two successful hauls were made by the 

 bucket dredge from about the lOO-fathoms zone. Mr. C. Cooper 

 kindly granted the party the use of his premises, and Mr. H. Suter 

 took charge of the collections and distributed the different groups to 

 various specialists for investigation, and it was decided that types of 

 any new species should be placed in the Colonial Museum, Wellington. 

 The results of these investigations are contained in the following papers, 

 published in the Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, vol. 

 xxxviii. : — 



1. " Results of Dredging on the Continental Shelf of New Zealand," 



by Charles Hedley, I.e., pp. 68 to 76. 



2. " On the Foraminifera and Ostracoda obtained off Great Barrier 



Island, New Zealand," by Frederic Chapman, I.e., pp. 77 to 

 112. 



3. " Report of some Crustacea dredged off the Coast of Auckland," 



by Dr. Charles Chilton, I.e., pp. 269 to 273. 



