Contents. 



VII 



III. — Botany. 



pages 



1 the flowering Plants and Ferns of the Chatham Islands. By- 

 John Buchanan, of the Geological Survey Department ... 333—341 



XLVIII. Observations on the different Modifications in the Capsules of 



Mosses, with reference to the Dispersion of their Spores. By 

 Captain F. W. Button, C.M.Z.S., etc. ... ... ... 342—347 



XLIX. Description of a new Species of Senecio. By Thomas F. Cheese- 

 man, F.L.S. ... ... ... ... ... 348 



L. On the Fertilization of Atianthus and Cyr tost His. By Thomas F. 



Cheeseman ... ... ••• ••• ••• 349 — 352 



LI. On Pterostylis squamata in New Zealand. By Thomas F. 



Cheeseman - .-• • •• ••• 352 3o3 



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LII. A Description of some new Species of Gymnostomum. By Charles 



Knight, F.R.C.S., F.L.S. ... ... ... ...354—355 



LIIL Description of some New Zealand Lichens. By Charles Knight . . . 356—367 



LIV. Description of a new Lichen ( Stereocaulon buchanani). By James 



Stirton, M.D. Communicated by John Buchanan ... 367 — 368 



Notes on Stereocaulon buchanani, Stirton. By Charles Knight, 



... 3GS— 309 



F. R. G. S. , 1 . -Li. fc>. . . . 



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LV. On the Occurrence of Hcematococcus sanguineus on the Wool of a 



Dead Sheep. By Swen Berggren, Ph.D., Lund L'niversity. 

 Communicated by Julius Haast, Ph.D., F.K.S. ... ... 369—370 



LVI. On some of the Naturalized Plants of Otago. By G. M. Thomson 370—376 



LVIL On Mottled Kauri. By James Stewart, C. E. ... ... 376—377 



LVIIL Description of a new Species of Isottes. By T. Kirk, F.L.S ... 377 



LIX. On the Occurrence of J uncus lamprocarpus, Ehr., in New Zealand. 



378 



By T. Kirk 



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IV. — Chemistry. 



LX. On the Analogy 



Analyst to the C 



illiani Skey, 



379— 3S3 



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LXI. On the Evolution of Heat during the Hydration of Clay-slate, 



Clay, and Coal. By William Skey ... ... ... 384— 



LXII Notes on the Formation and constitution of Torbanite and similar 



Minerals. By William Skey. . . ... ... ... 387—389 



LXIII. On the Evolution of absorbed Sulphur from Carbon by Voltaic 



Action : with Notes upon the Eev. H. Highton's Theory for 



explaining the Jbvo 

 in Work. By Willi 



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LXIV. On Duplex T< 



New Zealan 



. . . • • • «•• 



... 389—395 



anager, 



396—403 



LXV. On a Modification of the Electric Lamp for projecting the Spectra 



of different Metals on the Screen. By A. W. Bickerton, F.C.S., 

 Professor of Chemistry in Canterbury College ... ... 403 



LXVI. Notes on the Colouring Matter of Hcematococcus sanguineus. By 



404 — 



Llewellyn Powell, M.D. 



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LXVIL Notes on the Chemical Properties of some of the Strata from Mr. 



Firth's Well at Mount Eden. By J. A. Pond ... ... 405—407 



V. — Geology. 



LXVIIL Notes on Dr. Haast's supposed Pleistocene Glaciation of New 



Zealand. By W. T. L. Travers, F.L.S. ... ... 409—440 



LXIX. On the Date of the Glacial Period ; a Comparison of Views repre- 

 sented in Papers published in the Transactions of the N.Z. 

 Institute, Vols. V. and VI. By A. Dudley Dobson, C.E. ... 440—446 



LXX. The Glacial Period of New Zealand. By Thomas Mackay, C.E. ... 447 



