CorreNso.—ÓOn the Moa. 107 
In justice to myself—if not also to Professor Owen and to Mr. Rule— 
I had intended noticing a statement made by Mr. Vaux in his above- 
mentioned paper, in which he says that ** Bishop Williams and the Rev. R. 
Taylor, in 1839, were the first to discover the remains of the Moa ;"* but, 
owing to the great length of my paper, Iam obliged to omit doing so; 
merely saying here that 7 deny it. My grounds for so speaking will be 
found in what I have already written upon it (supra). Mr. Vaux, evidently, 
had not seen my early-published paper on the Moa, neither those of 
Professor Owen, and of Dr. Mantell. "There are also other matters of high 
importance in Mr. Vaux's paper respecting the Maoris (for which he has 
mentioned me); to them, I hope to return ere long. 
5. Of sundry early English published scientific testimonies. 
In conclusion, I may be permitted to call attention to the following 
testimonies in connection with the foregoing; and I do so the more readily 
because they were all spontaneously given by gentlemen of the highest 
standing in their respective scientifie pursuits, and written, and published, 
and spoken of publicly (in lectures, etc.) by them at a very early period. 
I mean :— 
(1.) Sm W.J. Hooxer, K.H., ete., ete., the very eminent Botanist, formerly 
Director of the Royal Gardens at Kew, who, in the London Journal of 
Botany, for January, 1844, Vol. IIL., p. 8, mentions approvingly my paper 
on the Moa, and the bones I had sent through him, in 1842, for Professor 
Owen. 
(2.) Proressor Owen, F.R.S., ete., etc., the eminent Naturalist and 
Osteologist, who—both in his papers on the Moa (Dinornis), “ Zoological 
Transactions,” Vol. III., part 4, p. 327,—and, also, in his kindly and of his 
own accord, republishing in the ** Annals and Magazine of Natural History,” 
1844, Vol. XIV., p. 81, my early paper on the Moa,—has borne a similar 
testimony. 
(8.) Dr. MawrELL, F.R.S., etc., etc., the celebrated Geologist and 
Osteologist, has also done the same, and that, too, at various times; 
particularly in his work entitled ** Petrifactions and their Teachings,” pp. 98, 
94, and 487 ; and also in his very able and lucid paper (doubly interesting 
to us here in New Zealand), ** On the Fossil Remains of Birds, collected in 
New Zealand by Mr. Mantell of Wellington," published in the ** Quarterly 
Journal of the Geological Society," February, 1848, Vol. IV., pp. 225-241 
(passim), where Dr. Mantell says :—“ I do not deem it necessary to enlarge 
on the question whether the Dinornis and Palapteryx still exist in New 
Zealand; on this point, I would only remark that Mr. Colenso, who was 
the first observer that investigated the nature of the fossil remains with due 
* Trans. N. Z. Inst., Vol. VIIL, p. 11, 
