560 



Sixth Annual Report. 



The volume contains 560 pages, with thirty-five plates and several 

 woodcuts. Eighty-one articles were selected by the Board, and printed in 

 the volume. These are by forty-two authors, and have been arranged as 

 follows :• 



Miscellaneous 

 Zoology ... 

 Botany . . . 

 Chemistry 

 Geology ... 

 Proceedings of Societies 



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Papers. 



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the Proceedings will be found abstracts of thirty-th ree communications, 



which were not considered suitable for printing in the Transactions. 



Mr. Thomson's paper was placed in an appendix, in order to avoid as 

 much as possible delaying the rest of the work while the proof sheets were 

 sent to Dunedin for revision. 



In the Appendix will also be found two articles not directly connected 

 with New Zealand, and a reprint from the " Annals and Magazine of Natural 

 History," which has been made at the suggestion of the Philosophical 

 Institute of Canterbury. 



The illustrations of the papers by Dr. Buller (Plate XXI.) and the Rev. 

 O. P. Cambridge (Plate VI.), were executed in London, and Plate I. (on 

 Mr. Thomson's paper) in Dunedin. The remainder of the illustrations have 



been printed, by permission of the Hon 



Colonial Secretary, at the 



Government Lithographic establishment. The other drawings on stone were 

 made from the original objects, by Mr. John Buchanan, of the Geological 

 Department, except in the case of those illustrating Dr. Knight's paper on the 

 Structure of the Saurian Teeth (Plates XXIV.-XXVL), which were drawn 

 on the stone by the author himself. 



The valuable services afforded bv the assistant editor. Mr. A. T. Bothamley, 



Mr, 



Meteorological 

 be acknowledge 



The following papers submitted to the Board for approval have been 



reserved 



1 . Cosmography, by J. Leith. 



2. Remarks on Mr. Leith's paper, by T. Heale. 



nines of Life, bv T. Heale, 



Induction 



Dr. Haast's valuable paper on the Harpagornis has been entitled 

 11 Abstract," but it is necessary to explain that only paragraphs repeated from 

 his previous paper on the same subject (Art. XXVIII., Vol. IV.) have been 

 omitted, the author having prepared a complete rgsumS of the whole 



