144: Transactions. — Miscellaneous. 



above tuberosity, are some muscular fibres that run down over anterior surface 

 of femur, as if the muscle when entire had ensheathed the shaft of the bone. 

 These fibres, I think, belong to the Vastus extemus or anterior part of 



Crurceus. 



eft Fibula . 



j?< 



inserted into a strong roughness about 2 inches 



its outer surface. 



eft 



On this bone there is a small slip of tendinous insertion left, which I 



bel 



It is into a depression on the inner side of the procnemial ridge about 4 

 inches below the head of the tibia at the apex of that well-defined triangular 

 surface on the inner and anterior aspect of the bone, from which the second 

 head of origin of the Gastrocnemius interims arises. 



Art. XIT. — On the Discovery of a cut Stump of 



of the Existence of 



before the Volcanic Era. 



By John Goodall. 

 Plate VI. 



[Read before the Auckland Institute, 29th June, 1874.] 



I have to record this evening a discovery giving a trace of human life on 

 this island, and in this locality, reaching back beyond history, and supporting 

 the Maori tradition that this island was inhabited before their arrival here, 

 and that the Maeros* of the North Island and the Ngatimamaeros* of the 



be 



Maoris 



This latter belief has doubtless 



arisen from want of evidence beyond the faint tradition of the Maoris. Such 

 evidence I have been fortunate enough to obtain, and now submit to this 

 Institute, trusting that the link thus supplied may be the means, in hands 

 more versed than mine in the early history of New Zealand, of deciphering 

 a page of its history, and throw light on a subject that has puzzled many. 



Heavy 



by the 



purpose of making 



new streets for the benefit of the city. During last March, while works were 

 being carried on in Coburg Street, near the junction of Wellesley Street 



* For an account of Maeros and Ngatimamaeros, see Hochstetter's "New Zealand, 

 page 210. 



