5 GO Sixth Anmml Report. 



The volume contains 560 pages, with tliirty-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 : — 



Papers. Pages. 



Miscellaneous ... ... ... ... 28 ... 61 



Zoology ... 

 Botany ... 

 Chemistry 

 Geology ... 

 Proceedings of Societies 



30 



10 



3 



10 



146 

 44 

 20 

 95 



88 



In the Proceedings will be found abstracts of thirty-three 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. BuUer (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. the 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 XXIY.-XXYI.), which were drawn 

 on the stone by the author himself. 



The valuable services ajfforded by the assistant editor, Mr. A. T. Bothamley, 

 in passing the work through the press, and by Mr. P. B. Gore, in preparing 

 the abstract of the Meteorological Observations which will be found in the 

 Appendix, have to be acknowledged. 



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. 



3. Remarks on Dr. Basstian's work on Beginnings of Life, by T. Heale. 



4. Induction and Necessary Truth, by Dr. Kidd. 



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

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

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

 omitted, the author having prepared a complete r6sum6 of the whole 



