an almost complete skeleton of Veil apteryx ingens, a very valuable 
present given by the trustees of the Nelson Museum to the Imp. 
Geological Institution of Vienna. Two Kiwis (Apteryx Owenii Gould) 
living representatives of the wingless birds, which had been caught 
for me by natives in the mountains on the Aorere River, formed 
an interesting counterpart to those remnants of extinct wingless 
birds of New Zealand. I may be allowed also to mention the 
kindness and attention of my friends , Dr. I). Monro, IT. T. L. 
Travers, Capt. Rough , N. Adams , If. Curtis , 31. Maekay , Th . R, 
Racket, Wrey , Wells, and many others, who by their liberal con- 
tributions of minerals, plants, and zoological specimens have helped 
me to complete my collections. To Messrs. A. L. C. Campbell and 
Burnett I am indebted for pretty landscapes and other sketches; 
and to the Provincial Government for numerous photographs of the 
environs of Nelson. 
I was quite reluctant to leave a country, where so many dis- 
coveries and explorations remained still to be made. The pleasure 
of ascending to and penetrating the higher, remoted regions of the 
New Zealand Alps, at that time almost untrodden by the foot of 
man, was not in store for me. From Lake Arthur (Rotoiti), the sou- 
thernmost point I readied in the southern Island, I saw from afar 
the stupendous peaks of the southern mountain-ranges with their sum- 
mits of perpetual ice and snow glistering, towards me. I was allowed 
but a distant glimpse of the grandeur and majesty of those moun- 
tains, which my friend and fellow-traveller, l)r. J. Roast , explored 
so successfully during the last years, under many difficulties and 
privations, but to the lasting honour of German perseverance and 
science. 
My time had now almost expired, and I had to think of re- 
turning to Europe. In a lecture on the geology of the Province 
of Nelson , delivered on the 29"' of September in the Wesleyan 
church , which had been most readily assigned me for the occasion, 
I presented a summary report of the results of my observations. 
A duplicate of this lecture illustrated by a geological map I 
transmitted to the Provincial Government of Nelson and to the 
