Best.—Miramar Island and its History. 791 
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protected by the Maori. A considerable number of them are still flourishing. 
Many interesting notes are contained in papers on Miramar Peninsula in 
volumes 5 and 17 of the Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 
have now seen how Te Whanga-nui-a-Tara, or Port Nicholson, was 
discovered, explored, settled, and defended. We have seen how courageous 
neolithic sea-rovers, a thousand years ago, rode down six hundred leagues 
ging с 
years, until the day dawned when the sons of Tara and Ira saw on the 
waters of Raukawa the huge canoe of the pale-skinned sea-demons sailing 
over their ancient sea-roads. 
Авт. 49—The Solubility and Hydrolysis of Calcium Carbonate. 
By Н. О. Askew, M.A. 
losophi I ; 1 Editor. 
:losophical Institute of Canterbury, 6th July, 1921 ; received by А 
eee M арте: лент 1921; issued se, y, 22nd June, 1923.] 
by examination of the 
1 1 air being excluded—more especially 
by very dilute gst ue a oe d Шу 
i i imi ts 
uniform—that 18, certain m salts gave similar effects, 
epe. rae definite influence, 1n some d giving apparent breaks 
ili ivate ication. 
lescri i he following purposes : 
to be described was carried out for t 
(i) To рано, to verify Rowe’s results ; (ii) to determine the degree of 
hydrolysis o ; 
"ev product of calcium carbonate. ; 
те н calcium carbonate has been determined by a number 
of workers, but the results differ considerably. 
