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his work in two papers, read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 

 in which he has scheduled all the minerals which are yet known in New 

 Zealand. The total number of varieties mentioned is 74 metallic and 134 

 non-metallic minerals, making 208 in all. He has since been engaged on 

 au examination of the rocks, and is grouping and classifying them prior to 

 description. He has also completed the classification of a fine collection of 

 foreign minerals, including a valuable series presented some years ago by 

 the Director of the Geological Survey of Canada, which has hitherto been 

 inaccessible for reference. The examination of very large collections of 

 New Zealand rocks has also been commenced, about fifty selected specimens 

 of volcanic rocks having been sliced and prepared for microscopic analysis, 

 and about a thousand specimens critically examined. During the past year 

 collections of fossils have been made at twenty different localities, chiefly 

 from Tertiary and Cretaceo-tertiary strata. The collections are not yet 

 fully worked out, but the number of specimens added to the Geological 

 Survey collections in the Museum cannot be short of 10,000 fossils. Nearly 

 9,000 of these came from a single locality. The remaining collections, not 

 numbering more than 1,300 specimens, are, though small, very valuable 

 additions to our knowledge of the fauna of the beds from whence they 

 came. 



Publications. 

 The Seventeenth Museum and Laboratory Eeport (68 pages 8vo.), and 

 the Fifteenth Progress Eeport of the Geological Survey, have been dis- 

 tributed. The following are in the press : (1.) New Zealand Handbook, 

 3 Ed., Dr. Hector. A new geological map has been prepared to accompany 

 this work, and printed in colours, in the General Survey Lithographic 

 Department ; and a copy of the map, together with explanatory letterpress, 

 has been forwarded to the Agent-General for incorporation with a similar 

 work which he is publishing in London. (2.) The Sixteenth Progress 

 Eeport of the Geological Survey, 1882. By Dr. Hector. With maps 

 and sections ; and including Special Eeports on the Norsewood Lignites 

 (Cox) ; on the Gold Fields of Cape Colville Peninsula (Cox) ; on 'Deep 

 Alluvial Gold Mines in Westland (Cox) ; on the Geology of Shag Valley 

 (Cox) ; on the Malvern Hills Coal Mines (Cox) ; on the Collingwood 

 District (Cox) ; on Motunau District (McKay) ; on the Antimony Lode, 

 Carrick Eanges (McKay) ; on Langdon's Eeef (McKay) ; on the Terawhiti 

 Eeefs (McKay) ; on the Antimony Lode, Eeefton (McKay) ; on the Geology 

 of the Eeefton District (McKay). (3.) The Meteorological Eeports for 

 1880-82 are being included in one volume, which is now in an advanced 

 state of preparation, and will be illustrated by diagrams showing the 

 changes for each month. 



