PREFACE. 
Tux present Volume contains only the Transactions of the Institute for the year, com- 
prising a selection from the original papers read before the various affiliated Societies. 
As they alone occupy more space than any previous issue, the Proceedings, Minutes, and 
Presidential Addresses and Lectures, heretofore included in the Volume, have been 
deferred for future publication. For the same reason the publieation of the following 
papers has had to be postponed :— 
1. Observations on the Evidences of Recent Change in the Elevation of the Waikato. 
By James Stewart, C.E. 
2. Remarks upon the supposed Pleistocene Glaciation of New Zealand, and Post- 
Glacial Moas. By J. Cockburn Hood, F.G.S 
. Notice of a Senecio. By J. Buchanan, F.L.S. 
Observations on Captain Hutton’s paper on the Maori Cooking-Places at the 
Mouth of Shag River (Vol. VIII., “ Trans. N. Z. Inst.,” pp. 103-8). By Julius 
: von Haast, Ph.D., F.R.S. 
; 5. Ona New Fire Grate for Economizing the Combustion of Coals and Lignite, and 
increasing the Radiation of Heat. By H. Skey. 
6. On the Approximate Composition of Winslow's Soothing Syrup. By W. Skey. 
7. On the proposed Introduetion of the Polecat into New Zealand. By Walter L. 
Buller, C.M.G., D.Sc 
8. On a Marine Spider found at Cape Campbell. By C. H. Robson. 
9. On the supposed Influence of Climate over the Geographical Distribution of the 
Marine Mollusca. By C. W. Purnell 
10. Notice of a Meteorite. By James Leece. 
11. Scientific Instruction in New Zealand. By Professor Bickerton, F.C.S. 
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The late period at which many of the papers were received has caused some delay in 
the issue of the Volume, and imposed mueh extra labour on the Assistant Editor, Mr. 
Leonard Stowe, to whom the acknowledgments of the Board are due for the effieient 
manner in which the eorrections for the press have been performed 
The Editor has also to recognise the assistance of Mr. R. B. Gore in preparing the 
Meteorologieal Statisties appended to the Volume, and of Mr. John Buchanan, F.L.S., by 
whom most of the Illustrations have been drawn on stone, the printing having been 
done at the Government Lithographic Establishment by permission of the Hon. the 
Colonial Secretary 
