418 Transactions.— Geology. 
Art. LXXII.—Notes on the Mineralogy of New Zealand. 
By S. Herserr Cox, F.C.S., F.G.S., Assistant Geologist. 
[Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 17th September, 11th October, and 
11th November, 1881.] 
Tue work of the Geological Survey naturally divides itself under various 
heads, to each of which one officer or other of the department devotes 
special attention, and it has fallen to my lot, while pursuing the general 
routine work of the survey, to be more especially connected with the minera- 
logical and mining branches than with any other. 
This being so, Dr. Hector has suggested that it would be of interest to 
bring before the Society in a connected form the details which have been 
collected from time to time concerning the minerals hitherto discovered in 
New Zealand, and I propose to make the present paper the first of a series 
describing the New Zealand minerals, with such points of interest concern- 
ing them as suggest themselves to me, and I hope that where members 
have information of minerals existing in localities which I do not cite, 
they will be good enough to furnish the Society with notes of the same, 
as any description of this sort should be as complete as it is possible to 
make it. 
Up to the present time the accounts of the minerals found in New Zea- 
land have been somewhat fragmentary. In 1865, Dr. Hector published a 
list of the minerals found in the province of Otago, together with a descrip- 
tion of the same in the “ Jurors’ Reports of the New Zealand Exhibition,” 
1865; and this description was very complete when it is considered that at 
that time the Geological Survey of New Zealand had hardly — 
Since that time Professor Hutton has published a list of Otago min 
his report on the geology of Otago, which does not include all the nd 
mentioned by Dr. Hector. Professor Liversidge has also (Trans. N.Z. Inst., 
vol. x., p. 490) described a selection of minerals forwarded to him, and 
Professor y. Haast has mentioned some of the economic minerals found in 
Canterbury in his work on the geology of Canterbury and Westland, besides 
Which the Colonial Museum and Laboratory Reports and the Geological 
Survey Reports contain mention from time to time of minerals forwarded 
for identification or collected by the Survey, but none of these are complete 
in themselves, so that I think there is sufficient reason for a work of this 
sort. 
The system of classification which I propose to pursue is ic ens cael 
by Professor Warrington Smyth, of the poe School of Mines London, 7 
