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NELSON ASSOCIATION. 



Election of Officers for 1874 



Note on a Green and Brown Spotted Lizard. By T. Mackay 



NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE. 



Fifth Annual Report by the Board of Governors . . . 

 Accounts of the New Zealand Institute 

 Address to His Excellency Sir G. F. Bowen, G.C.M.G. 

 Reply to Address 



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APPENDIX. 



Meteorological Statistics of New Zealand for 1873 

 Earthquakes rejjorted in New Zealand during 1873 

 Comparative Abstract for 1873 and Previous Years 

 Notes on the Weather during 1873 



Philological Considerations on the Whence of the Maori. By J. T. 

 Thomson, F.R.G.S. 



On the Botany of Tahiti. (Author unknown.) Communicated by the 

 Hon. W. B. D. Mantell, F.G.S. 



Abstract of Lecture on New Guinea. By Captain Moresby, R.N., of 

 H.M.S. "Basilisk" 



A Catalogue of the Neiiropterous Insects of New Zealand ; with Notes and 

 Descriptions of new Forms. By Robert M'Lachlan, F.L.S. (Re- 

 printed from Ann. and Mag. N. H ., July, 1873, p. 30 et seq. ) 



Honorary Members of the New Zealand Institute 



Ordinary Members ... ... ... , 



Errata et Addenda 



Contents 



List of Plates 



Board of Governors of the New Zealand Institute 



Abstracts of Rules and Statutes of the New Zealand Institute 



List of Incorporated Societies 



Officers of Incorporated Societies and Extracts from the Rules 



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