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Remarks on the New Zealand Eat. By Llewellyn Powell, M.D. ... 401 



Notes respecting tlie Discovery of the Egg of the Moa at the Kaikoura Penin- 

 sula. ByJ. D. Enys ... ... ... ... 403 



Continued Creation versus Darwinian Evolution. By Dr. A. C. Barker . . . 404 



Annual P>.eport ... ... ... ... ...405—406 



Election of Office-bearers for 1872 ... ... ... .. 406 



On a simple method of supplying Water to the Christchurch Fire Engines. By 



R. W. Fereday ... ... ... ... ... 407 



OTAGO INSTITUTE. 



Notes on the Botany of Otago. By. J. Buchanan ... ... 408 



Abstract of Annual Report ... ... ... ' ... 409 



Address by J. S. Webb, Vice-President ... ... ...409—412 



Remarks on the Collection of Birds in the Otago Museum. By Captain F. W. 



Hutton, F.G.S. ... ... ... ... ... 412 



Election of Office-bearers for year ending 30th June, 1872 ... .., 413 



Notes on Sir William Thomson's Hypothesis that the Germ of Life is derived 



from Meteors. By Martin Chapman ... ... ... 417 — -419 



Account of some Presents recently received from the Smithsonian Institution, 

 and the Museum of Conaparative Zoology of Harvard College. By J. S. 

 Webb ... ... ... ... ... 419—420 



On Proportion applied to Geometry. By D. Brent, M. A. ... ... 420 



Notes on the Experiments on the so-called Psychic Force recently made by Mr. 



Crookes. By J. S. Webb ... ... ... ...421—422 



NELSON ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE AND 



INDUSTRY. 



On a Means of Detecting Incipient Combustion in Flax or Wool in Ships at Sea. 



ByF. W.Irvine ... ... ... ... ... " 423 



Measurements of Brown Trout (Salmofario) taken out of the Maitai. By T. 



Mackay ... ... ... ... ... 423 



Sketch of the History of Astronomical Science ; third paper — ' Newton and his 



Times.' By R. Lee ... ... ... ... 424 



Presentations to the Museum by the Bishop of Nelson ... ... 424 



On the Varieties of the Mulberry Tree as Food for the Silkworm (Part I). By 



T. C. Batchelor ... ... ... ... ...424-426 



On the Varieties of Food for and Management of the Silkworm (Part II. ) By 



T. C. Batchelor ... ... ... ... ... 426—427 



Abstract of Annual Report ... ... ... ... 427 



Election of Office-bearers for 1872 ... ... ... ... 428 



On the American Blight on Apple Trees. By T. Mackay, C.E. .. 429—432 



APPENDIX. 



Meteorological Statistics of New Zealand for 1871 ... ... ... 435 — 437 



Earthquakes reported in New Zealand during 1871 ... ... 437 



Notes on the Weather during 1871 ... ... ... ...438—440 



Lists of Members ... ... ... ... ... 441 — 446 



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



Abstracts of Rules and Statutes of the New Zealand Institute ... ... xi — xiii 



List of Incorporated Societies . ... ... ... ... xiv 



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



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