PAQES 



Art.LXV. Notes on tlie Concliiction of Electricity. By J. Duigan. (Abstract.) 324 — 325 



LXVI. Notes on a Paper "On Sinking Funds," read by Captain Hutton 

 before the Auckland Institute, September 7, 1868. {Trans. iV. Z. 

 /?is«., Vol. ii., p. 236.) By J. S. Webb. (Abstract.) ... 325 



Errata in Captain Hutton's paper, Vol. ii. of the Transactions . . . 325 



LXVIl. On the Changes effected in the Natural Features of a New Country 

 by the Introduction of Civilized Races, (Part III.) By 

 W. T. L. Travers, F.L.S. (Author's Abstract. ).. . ... 326—336 



LXVIII. On the Political Economy of Railways. By H. S. Chapman, One of 



the Judges of the Supreme Court of New Zealand ... 337 — 351 



APPENDIX. 



Meteorological Statistics of New Zealand for 1870... ... .. 353 — 355 



List of Earthquakes in New Zealand in 1870 ... ... ... 355 



Notes on the Weather during 1870 ... ... ... ...355—357 



Lists of Members ... ... ...358—363 



Board of Governors of the New Zealand Institute... ... ... x 



Abstract of Rules and Statutes of the New Zealand Institute ... ... x — xii 



List of Incorporated Societies ... ... ... ' ... xiii 



List of Office-bearers and Extracts from the Laws of Incorporated Societies . . . xiii — xvi 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



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1. Buller. — New Zealand Rat 



2. ,, New Zealand Lizards {Naultinus, Mocoa, Hinulia) 



3. ,, Blight Bird {Zosterops) 



4. ,, Huia {Heteralocha) 



5. Powell. — Katipo, or Poisonous Spider of New Zealand - ... 

 5b. Buller. — Weta (DemacrWa) 



6. Potts. — Crook-bill {Anarhynchus} 



7. ,, Nests of Kaka (ZVe»^tor) and Weka (Ocjf^roTOZis) 



8. ,, ,, New Zealand Fantail (BMpidura) and New Zealand Dab 



chick (Podiceps) 



9. ,, ,, New Zealand Falcon (i?ieracMe«) 



10. ,, ,, Pukeko [Porphyrio) 



11. ,, „ New Zealand Robin {Petroica) and New Zealand Canary 



(MoJwua) 



12. ,, „ Blight Bird {Zosterops) and Stitch Bird {Pogonornis) 

 12b. Buller. — Kiwi (Apteryx) 



13. Knox and Hector. — Ziphid Whale ... 

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18. Hector. — New Zealand Fishes (Go7-yphcenokles, Cor'ulodax, and Retropmna) 



19. , , New Zealand Salmonidce ... 

 20to24. Rochfort.— Plansof HokitikaRiver 



25. Davis. — Sulphur Crystals 



26. ,, New form of Iron Pyrites and Chloride of Barium Crystals 



27. Hutton.— G-eological Sections in Auckland and Hawke's Bay, and Plan of 



Hot Springs near Bay of Islands 



28. Hector. — Sections of "White Island ... 



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