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Contents. 



PAGES 



XIX. The Claims of Science in National Education. By Josiah Martin... 16S— 175 

 XX. On Early Instruction. By J. Adams, B. A. ... ... 175—180 



XXL On Forest Culture. By J. C. Firth ... ... ... 181—195 



II. — Zoology. 



XXII. On the Ornithology of New Zealand. By Walter L. Buller, 



D.Sc., F.L.S., F.G.S., F.R.G.S. ... ... ... 197—211 



XXIII. Notes on certain disputed Species of New Zealand Birds. By 



Walter L. Buller, D.Sc, C.M.Z.S. ... ... ... 211—212 



XXIV. On the Existence of two Species of Hieracidea in New Zealand. 



By Walter L. Buller ... ... ... ... 213—214 



XXV. Notes on an alleged new Species of Tern (Sterna alba, Potts). By 



Walter L. Buller .. . ... ... ... ...214—215 



XXVI. Description of a new Species of Petrel (Procellaria affinis). By 



Walter L. Buller ... ... ... ... ... 215—216 



XXVII. On the Occurrence of Plotus novce-hollandke in New Zealand. By 



Walter L. Buller .. . ... ... * ... ... 217— 21S 



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XXVIII. Notice of a new Species of Parrakeet in New Zealand. By Walter 



L. Buller - ... ... ...219-220 



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XXIX. On the Genus Himantopns in New Zealand. By Walter L. 



Buller... ... ... ... ... ...220-224 



XXX. On some Additions to the Collection of Birds in the Colonial 



Museum. By Walter L. Buller ... ... ... 224—225 



, Preliminary Remarks on some New Zealand Birds. By Otto 

 Finsch, Ph.D., of Bremen, Hon.Mem.N.Z.I., C.M.Z.S., Hon. 

 Mem. Brit. Orn. Union, etc. ... ... ... ... 226 — 236 



XXXII. On the Occurrence of Lamna cornubica, Porbeagle Shark, Flem., 



the Mako of the Maoris, in New Zealand. By Julius Haast, 

 Ph.D., F.R.S., Director of the Canterbury Museum ... 237—238 



XXXIII. On the Occurrence of Leptocephalus longirostris, Kaup, on the 



Coast of New Zealand. By Julius Haast ... ... 238 



XXXIV. Notes on New Zealand Ichthyology. By James Hector, M.D., 



F. R, S. , Director of the Geological Survey of New Zealand . . . 239—250 



XXXV. Notes on New Zealand Whales. By James Hector ... ... 251—265 



XXXVI. Description of some Plates of Baleen in the Otago Museum. By 



Captain F. W. Hutton, C.M.Z.S. ... ... ... 266 



XXXVII. Description of some Moa Remains from the Knobby Ranges. By 



Captain F. W. Hutton, F.G.S.; with anatomical Notes, by 

 Millen Coughtrey, M. D. ... ... ... ... 266—273 



XXXVIII. On the Dimensions of Dinornls Bones. By Captain F. W. 



Hutton ... ... ... ... ... 274 — 278 



XXXIX. Description of two new Spgeies of Aplysia . By Captain F. W. 



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279 



XL. Description of two new Species of Crustacea from New Zealand. 



By Captain F. W. Hutton ... . . 279—280 



XLI. Description of a new Species of Actinia. By Professor M. 



Coughtrey, M.D. ... ... ... ... ... 280 



XLII. Notes on the New Zealand Hydroidece. By Millen Coughtrey ... 281 — 293 



XLIII. Description of a new Crustacean, Phronhna novcE-zcalandice. By 



LI. Powell, M.D. ... ... ... ... ... 294—295 



XLIV. On the Disappearance of the larger kinds of Lizard from North 



Canterbury. By the Rev. J . W. Stack ... ... ... 295—297 



XLV. On the Geodephagous Coleoptera of New Zealand. By H. W. 



Bates, F.L.S. ... ... ... ... ...297—314 



XLVI. On the Longicorn Coleoptera of New Zealand. By H. W. Bates... 315—332 



