Nelson Philosophical Society. 577 



ABSTEACT. 



Professor von Haast said that he had found the leg hones of a new species of kiwi 

 amongst some moa hones in the Nelson Museum. His reasons for classing these bones as 

 belonging to a kiwi, and not to a moa, were their length as compared to their width and 

 size; moa bones being always thick and massive, while the bones in question were thin as 

 compared with moa bones of equal length. From their appearance he argued that they 

 had probably been found in some peaty deposit, and not in a cave ; cave bones being 

 always highly charged with carbonate of lime. He proposed to call the new species 

 Megalapteryx hectori, in recognition of Dr. Hector's important services to science. 



3. Dr. Hudson exhibited a cluster of cones from a Pinus insignis, sent to him by Mr. 

 Arthur Collins, Hillwood, Wakapuaka. Also a true New Zealand mackerel caught in 

 Blind Bay. 



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