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PREFACE. 



The original edition of the first volume of the Teaksactions and Pbo- 

 CEEDiNGs OP THE New ZEALAND INSTITUTE having long been exhausted, 

 the Government, at the request of the Board of aovernors, undertook its 

 republication. 



As wiU be seen, the arrangement of the first edition has been somewhat 

 changed. No extensive alterations have however been made in the Papers 

 as originaUy published ; and whenever at the request of authors any correc- 

 tions have been made which were not merely verbal, the words added have 

 been put in italics after those to be omitted, which are in square brackets. 



Wellington, 31si May, 1875. 



