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CONTENTS.



TRANSACTIONS.


I.—Miscellaneous.
PAGES
Art. I. New Zealand a Post-glacial Centre of Creation. By T. H. Cockburn-Hood, F.G.S. 3–24
II. On Mill's Fourth Fundamental Theorem respecting Capital. By John Carruthers, M. Inst. C.E. 24–34
III. Observations on the Evidences of recent Change in the Elevation of the Waikato District. By James Stewart, C.E. 34–37
IV. Address. By Professor Julius von Haast, Ph.D., F.R.S., President of the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury 37–56
V. Sketch of the Traditional History of the South Island Maoris. By the Rev. James W. Stack 57–92
VI. On the Influence of the Earth's Rotation on Rivers. By A. C. Baines 92–96
VII. On a peculiar Method of Arrow Propulsion as observed amongst the Maoris. By Coleman Phillips 97–99
VIII. On the Day in which Captain Cook took formal Possession of New Zealand. By W. Colenso, F.L.S. 99–108
IX. Manibus Parkinsonibus Sacrum: A brief Memoir of the First Artist who visited New Zealand; together with several little-known Items of Interest extracted from his Journal. By W. Colenso, F.L.S. 108–134
X. Notes, chiefly historical, on the ancient Dog of the New Zealanders. By W. Colenso, F.L.S. 135–155
XI. A System of Weights and Measures. By J. Carruthers, M. Inst. C.E. 155–160
XII. Notes on blowing up Snags in the Waikato River with Dynamite. By R. R. Hunt 161–164
XIII. Notes on the Firing of Torpedoes by Electricity. By J. A. Pond 164–170
XIV. Experiments on the Lifting-power of Inclined Planes in Aerial Transit. By Henry Skey 170–173
XV. Introduction of the Tension Wheel in Aerial Transit. By Henry Skey 173–176
XVI. Introduction of the Principle of the Gyroscope in Aerial Transit. By Henry Skey 176–180
XVII. On Floods in Lake Districts and Flooded Rivers in general, with Methods adopted for their Prevention and Control. By H. P. Higginson, M. Inst. C.E. 180–189
XVIII. On a means of selecting the most durable Timber. By John Buchanan 190
II.—Zoology.
XIX. Notes on the Ornithology of New Zealand. By Walter L. Buller, C.M.G., Sc.D., F.L.S. 191–201
XX. Further Notes on the Ornithology of New Zealand. By W. L. Buller. 201–209
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