CONTENTS. 



TEANSACTIONS. 



I. — Miscellaneous. 



PAGES 



Art. I. New Zealand a Post-glacial Centre of Creation. By T. H. Cockburn- 



Hood, F.G.S. .. .. .. .. .. .. 3—24 



n. On Mill's Fourth Fundamental Theorem respecting Capital. By 



John Carruthers, M. Inst. C.E. .. .. .. .. 24—34 



III. Observations on the Evidences of recent Change in the Elevation of 



the Waikato District. By James Stewart, C.E. .. .. 34 — 37 



IV. Address. By Professor Julius von Haast, Ph.D., F.E.S., President 



of the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury. . . . . . 37 — 56 



V. Sketch of the Traditional History of the South Island Maoris. By 



the Eev. James W. Stack . . . . . . . . . . 57 — 92 



VI. On the Influence of the Earth's Rotation on Elvers. By A. C. 



Baines . . . . . . . . " . . 92—96 



Vn. On a peculiar Method of Arrow Propulsion as observed amongst the 



Maoris. By Coleman Phillips . , . . . . . . 97—99 



VIII. On the Day in which Captain Cook took formal Possession of New 



Zealand. By W. Colenso, F.L.S. .. .. .. .. 99—108 



IX. Mcuiibus Parkinsonibus Sacrum : A brief Memoir of the First Artist 

 who visited New Zealand ; together with several little-known 

 Items of Interest extracted from his Journal. By W. Colenso, 

 F.L.S. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 108—134 



X. Notes, chiefly historical, on the ancient Dog of the New Zealanders. 



By W. Colenso, F.L.S. . . . . . . . . . . 135—155 



XI. A System of Weights and Measures. By J. Carruthers, M. Inst. C.E. 155—160 



XII. Notes on blowing up Snags in the Waikato Eiver with Dynamite. 



By E. E. Hunt. . , . . . . . . . . . . 161—164 



XIII. Notes on the Firing of Torpedoes by Electricity. By J. A. Pond . . 164—170 



XIV. Experiments on the Lifting-power of Inclined Planes in Aerial 



Transit. By Henry Skey . . . . . . . . . . 170—173 



XV. Introduction of the Tension Wheel in Aerial Transit. By Henry 



Skey .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 173—176 



XVI. Introduction of the Principle of the Gyroscope in Aerial Transit. 



By Henry Skey . . . . . . . . . . . . 176—180 



XVn. On Floods in Lake Districts and Flooded Elvers in general, with 

 Methods adopted for their Prevention and Control. By H. P. 

 Higginson, M. Inst. C.E. .. .. .. .. .. 180—189 



XVni. On a means of selecting the most dm-able Timber. By John 



Buchanan . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 



n. — Zoology. 



XIX. Notes on the Ornithology of New Zealand. By Walter L. Buller, 



C.M.G., Sc.D., F.L.S. .. .. .. .. ..191—201 



XX. Further Notes on the Ornithology of New Zealand. By W. L. BuIIer 201—209 



