SEPTEMBER 1891. 



17 OCT. 91 



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CONTENTS: 



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On. the Occurrence of Moa and Other Remains at Albury. W. W. Smith ... 19,3 



Notes on the Kea or Mountain Parrot. F. F. C. Huddlestone ... ... 198 



An Excursion to the Trelissic Basin. F. B. Chapman ... ... ... 202 



The Geysers Action of Rotorua, Camille Malfboy, C.E. ... ... 203 



The Prospects of finding Workable Coal on the Waitemata. Jas. Pakk, F.O.S. 208 



Star Charting and some Resulting Discoveries. H. C. Rl'SSELL, F.B.S. ... 211 



Beview— " Transactions and Proceedings of the N.Z. Institute — Vol. XX III."... 217 



Ice-Marks and their Counterfeits. Pro>\ F. W. Hutton, F.G.S. ... ... 219' 



General Notes— ... .. v ... ... ... ... 223 



An Interesting Point in Polynesian Ethnology — Notes on Eels — University 

 Extension in New Zealand— The Polynesian Society. 



Meetings of Societies ... ... ... ... ... 227 



Wellington Philosophical Society — Auckland Institute— Otago Institute — 

 Philosophical Institute of Canterbury — Linnoan Society of Now South 

 Wales— Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria— Royal Society of New 

 South Wales. 



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