New Zealand Institute. 525 
Thomas Broun. 102 pp. 8vo. (4.) Catalogue of New Zealand Diptera, 
Orthoptera and Hymenoptera. By Professor Hutton. 142 pp. 8vo. (5.) 
Biological Exercises for New Zealand Students: No. 1, The Shepherd’s 
Purse, by Professor Hutton; No. 2, The Bean, by Professor Parker. (6.)_ 
Meteorological Report for 1877-79, with abstracts of all returns prior to that 
date. 130 pp. 8vo. (7.) New Zealand Paleontology. Part IV., Fossil 
Corals, by the Rev. J. E. Tenison- Woods, Pres. Lin. Soc. N. 8. W. 50 
pp. 8vo., 4 plates. (8.) Handbook of New Zealand. New edition, prepared 
for the Melbourne Exhibition, with geological and other maps. By Dr. 
Hector. 112 pp., 9 plates and maps. 
' In the Press. 
(1.) Manual of New Zealand Birds, illustrated with lithographs and 
woodcuts, by Dr. Buller, C.M.G., F.R.S. (2.) Fifteenth Progress Report 
of the Geological Survey of New Zealand for 1880-81, by Dr. Hector, with 
maps and sections, and including Special Reports on the Chrome Deposits of 
New Zealand (Hector, Cox); On the Aniseed Valley Copper Mine (Cox) ; 
On the Richmond Hill Silver Mine (Cox); On the Wallsend Colliery, 
Collingwood (Cox); On the North Auckland District, including Thames and 
Coromandel Gold Fields, Island of Kawau, and Drury Coal Field (Cox); On 
the Aorere and Takaka Districts, Nelson (Cox); On the Waitaki Valley, 
» and Wanaka Lake District (McKay) ; Index to the Localities where 
Po have been collected in New Zealand, with their Stratigraphical 
METEOROLOGY. 
Aiportant changes were introduced on the 1st January in the Meteoro- 
logical Department, with the view of retrenchment, in order to continue the 
Weather Signal Branch, the vote for which was disallowed last session of 
Parliament. As far as possible the recommendations of the Conference 
- held in Sydney in 1870 have been adopted in this reorganization. 
___ 1. The number of first-class Meteorological Stations has — reduced 
_ fom eighteen to the three at Auckland, Wellington, and bot 
_‘Statisties are also furnished by the Director of the School = prea 
= pe near Christchurch. 
_ 2. Thirty-seven reporting stations are now fitted with reliable instru- 
-Ments, and supply information by telegraph at 9 a.m. on every day but 
Sunda day, as to the wind, pressure, temperature, humidity, and general state 
of the Weather. These telegrams are grouped according to the aspects 
decided on by the Conference, viz.: (a.) North-east, from the North Cape to 
seep from the West Cape to Moeraki. (a) qommaelaeaberns: 
East Cape. oS From the data tained, yand from 
East Cape. (b.) North-west, from the North Cape to the West Cape. 
