New Zealand Institute. 525 



Thomas Broun, 102 pp. 8vo. (4.) Catalogue of New Zealand Diptera, 

 Ortlioptera and Hymenoptera. By Professor Button. 142 pp. 8vo. (5.) 

 Biological Exercises for New Zealand Students : No. 1, The ShexAerd's 

 Purse, by Professor Hutton ; No. 2, The Bean, by Professor Parker. (6.) 

 Meteorological Pi,eport for 1877-79, with abstracts of all returns prior to that 

 date. 130 pp. 8vo. (7.) New Zealand Palasontology. Part TV., Fossil 

 Corals, by the Eev. J. E. Tenison- Woods, Pres. Lin. Soc. N. S. W. 50 

 pp. 8vo., 4 plates. (8.) Handbook of New Zealand. New edition, prepared 

 for the Melbourne Exhibition, with geological and other maps. By Dr. 

 Hector. 112 pp., 9 plates and maps. 



In the Press. 



(1.) Manual of New Zealand Bu'ds, illustrated with lithographs and 

 woodcuts, by Dr. Buller, C.M.G., P.E.S. (2.) Fifteenth Progress Eeport 

 of the Greological Survey of New Zealand for 1880-81, by Dr. Hector, with 

 maps and sections, and including Special Eeports on the Chrome Deposits of 

 New Zealand (Hector, Cox) ; On the Aniseed Valley Copper Mine (Cox) ; 

 On the Eichmond Hill Silver Mine (Cox) ; On the Wallsend Colliery, 

 CoUingwood (Cox) ; On the North Auckland District, including Thames and 

 Coromandel Gold Fields, Island of Kawau, and Drury Coal Field (Cox) ; On 

 the Aorere and Takaka Districts, Nelson (Cox) ; On the Waitaki Valley, 

 Lindis, and Wanaka Lake District (McKay) ; Index to the Localities where 

 Fossils have been collected in New Zealand, with their Stratigraphical 

 Position. 



METEOEOLOGY. 



Important changes were introduced on the 1st January in the Meteoro- 

 logical Department, with the view of retrenchment, in order to continue the 

 Weather Signal Branch, the vote for which was disallowed last session of 

 Parliament. As far as possible the recommendations of the Conference 

 held in Sydney in 1870 have been adopted in this reorganization. 



1. The number of first-class Meteorological Stations has been reduced 

 from eighteen to the three at Auckland, Welhngton, and Dunedin, but 

 statistics are also furnished by the Director of the School of Agriculture, 

 at Lincoln, near Christchurch. 



2. Thirty-seven reporting stations are now fitted with reliable instru- 

 ments, and supply information by telegraph at 9 a.m. on every day but 

 Sunday, as to the wind, pressure, temperature, humidity, and general state 

 of the weather. These telegrams are grouped according to the aspects 

 decided on by the Conference, viz. : (a.) North-east, from the North Cape to 

 the East Cape, (b.) North-west, from the North Cape to the West Cape, 

 (o.) Southern, fi-om the West Cape to Moeraki. (d.) South-east, from Moeraki 

 to the East Cape, (e.) Cook Strait. From the data thus obtained, and fi-om 



