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•'Transactions and proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 1879. Voi. XII. Wellington, 

 1880. 8.° 



Lecoy. The forest question in New Zealand. — Peppercorne. Influence of forests on Climate and 

 Eainfall. — Heaphy. Notes on Port Nicholson and the natives in 1839. — Edwin. On the principle 

 of New Zealand weather forecast. — Phillips. On the ignorance of the ancient new Zealander of the 

 Use of projeetile Weapons. — Colenso. On the Moa. — ld. Contributions towards a better Knowledge 

 of the Maori race. — hi. A few remarks on a cavern near Cook's Well, at Tolaga bay, and on a Tree 

 (Sapola costata) found there. — v. Haast. Notes on an ancient manufactory of stone implements at 

 the mouth of the Otokai Creek, Brighton, Otago, — Stock. Notes on the colour-sense of the Maori. — 

 ld. Eemarks on Mr. Mackenzie Cameron's theory respecting the Kahui Tipua. — Pope. Notes on the 

 southern stars and other celestial objects. — Bickerton. Partial impact (Paper n. 3.): On the origin 

 of the visible Universe. — ld. On the general problem of stellar collision. — ld. On the genesis of 

 worlds and systems. — ld. On the birth of nebulae. — Frankland. On the doctrine of Mind-Stuff. — 

 Richmond. A reply to Mr. Frankland's paper on « The doctrine of Mind-Stuff ». — Turnbull. Pro- 

 noms and other barat fossil words compared with primeval and Non-Aryan languages of Hindostan 

 and borders. — ld. Moriori connection. — v. Haast. Notes on Ziphius (Epiodon), novse-zealandim, von 

 Haast-Goosebeaked whale. — Kirk. On the occurrence of the Eed-capped Dotterei (Hiaticula ruftca- 

 pilla) in New Zeland. — ld. Eemarks on some curious specimens of New Zealand birds. — ■ Campbell. 

 Notes on the Nesting habits of the Orange-wattled Crow. — Fitzinger. On the New Zealand Frog. — 

 Colenso. Notes and observations on the animai economy and habits of one of our New Zealand Lizards, 

 supposed to be a new species of Naultinus. — Fereday. Description of a new(?) genus and species 

 of butterfly of the sub-family Satyrine. — ld. Description of a new (?) species of the family Leucanidss, 

 and a new (?) species of the genus (?) Chlenìas. — Meìnertzhagen. Note and description of a possibly- 

 new species of Aplysia. — Hullon. On Anas gracilis, Buller. — ld. Contributions to the entomology 

 of New Zealand. — ld. Contributions to the Coelenterate fauna of New Zealand. — ld. Additions to 

 the list of New Zealand worms. — Verril. Descriptions of new star-fishes from New Zealand. — 

 Bronn. On the habits of Prionoplus reticularis. with diagnoses of the larva and pupa. — ld. Descrip- 

 tion of the larva of Pericoplus truncatus, with observations as to habitat. — Maskell. Further notes 

 on New Zealand Coccidw. — Hamilton. On Melicerta ringens and Plumatella repens. — Kirk. List of 

 marine Mollusco found in the neigbbourhood of Wellington. — ld. Descriptions of new marine shells. — 

 ld. Notice of the occurrence of Vitrina milligani in New Zealand. ■ — ld. Additions to the list of New 

 Zealand fishes. — ld. On the occurrence of Giant Cuttlefish on the New Zealand coast. — hi. Description 

 of a new species of Palinarus. — Buller. Description of a new species of lizard of the genus Naul- 

 tinus. — Mair. Notes on fishes in Upper Whanganui river. — Cheeseman. On the botany of the 

 Pirongia mountain. — ld. On the occurrence of the genus Sporadanthus in New Zealand. — Armstrong. 

 A short Scketch of the fiora of the province of Canterbury, with catalogue of species. — Pelrie. 

 Notice of the occurrence of Liparophyllum gunnii, Lob. in New Zealand. — ld. Notice of the occur- 

 rence of a species of llemiphues in New Zealand. — ld. Description of a new species of Ehrharta. — 

 Gillies. Notes on the Growth of certain trees on Scoria soil near mount Eden, Auckland. — Colenso. 

 A description of a few new plauts from our New Zealand forests, with dried specimens of the same. — 

 Knigkt. Contribution to the Lichenographia of New Zealand. — Buchanan. Notes on New Zealand 

 plant?. — Curi. On Grasses and Fodder plants. — Kirk. Description of new flowering plants. — ld. 

 Description of a new species of Cladophora. — ld. Notice of the occurrence of Lagenophora emphy- 

 sopvs and other unrecorded plants in New Zealand. — Skey. On certain results obtained upon same 

 of the argentiferous salts whicb are affected by light. — ld. Further notes upon the movements of 

 Camphor on Water. — ld. On the mode in which oil acts as a nucleus in super-saturated saline Solu- 

 tions ; with notes on the mode of action of solid nuclei. — ld. On the cause of the deposition of 

 Camphor towards light. — ld. On the nature of the precipitate formed by certain mercurie salts 

 in presence of essential oils. — ld. On the decomposition of argentic-oside by mercury. — Crawford. . 

 On Wind-formed lakes. — ld. On Bidwill's front hills. — Collie. Eemarks on volcanoes and geysers 

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