SCIENTIFIC AeSsSULTS 
OF THE 
NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT TRAWLING 
EXPEDITION, 1907, 
END ROD -U'C 'T EON: 
By Epear R. Waits, F.L.S. 
Plates I-VI and Chart.* 
Ix my introduction to the “Scientific Results of the Trawling 
Expedition of H.M.C.S. ‘ Thetis’ off the Coast of New South Wales 
in 1898”’+ I gave some account of the various scientific expeditions 
which had visited the colony, or had been locally organized. 
A similar work has since been done for New Zealand, for in 1904 
the late Captain F. W. Hutton, F.R.S., published an admirable résumé 
in the introduction to the “ Index Faunze Nove-Zealandie.”{ The 
work of local naturalists published in the “ Transactions of the New 
Zealand Institute” is referred to, as are also sundry descriptive 
catalogues. 
PREVIOUS EXPEDITIONS. 
No mention is made in the “ Index” of two Government trawling 
expeditions which took place in 1900 and 1901 respectively. As 
these are the only investigations of the nature which have been under- 
taken in New Zealand, and as they naturally lead up to the trawling 
expedition of the “ Nora Niven,” some account of them is here sup- 
plied, culled mainly from the official reports.§ 
* For explanation of plates see p. 63. 
+ Waite. Mem. Aust. Mus., iv, 1899. 
{ Hutton. Index Faunze Nove-Zealandizx, 1904. 
§ Ayson. Reports, Experimental Trawling, 1900 and 1901. 
