THE NEW ZEALAND 
JOURNAL OF SCIENCE 
AND 
TECHNOLOGY. 
CONTENTS. 
ARTICLES 
Page 
Sir D. E. HUTCHINS. Rate of Growth of Trees in Relation to Forestry: 
A Criticism of Mr. E. Maxwell’s Paper 
Sir R. STOUT. A Science Institute for Wellington 
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A. B. DO RE. Notes on some Avian Haematozoa observed in New Zealand 
W. W. SMITH. Parasitism in New Zealand Spiders 
S. H. JENKINSON. Design of Laminated Springs 
J. HARDCASTLE. Deposition of Ice by a Glacier Spring 
P. G. MORGAN. The Tertiary Beds of Central Otago 
A. C. GIFFORD. The Origin of New Stars : The Dynamics of Celestial 
Encounters 
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NATURAL=HISTORY NOTES 
The Pupation of Nymphostola galactina Felder. Notes on Two Northern 
Cirripedes recorded from New Zealand. On Siphonalia dilatata of 
Suter’s Manual. A Revised Name for a New Zealand Trochoid. Comi= 
nella quoyi Kiener. On the Occurrence of the Australian Coot in New 
Zealand. Entomological News .. .. .. .. .. 53 
UNIVERSITY AND SCIENTIFIC NEWS:— 
Geography as a University Subject. Auckland Institute. Wellington Philo- 
sophical Society.. .. .. .. .. .. ..58 
REVIEWS AND ABSTRACTS:— 
A New Theory of Plate Springs. Some Notes on the Language of the 
Chatham Islands. Some Maori Fish=hooks from Otago. Moriori Sea= 
going Craft. The Edible Fish, &c., of Taupo=nui=a=Tia. The Supply 
of Single=phase Power from Three-phase Systems .. .. .. 60 
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