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Contents
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| Election of Governor of New Zealand Institute | 431 | ||
| On the Relation between the Pitch-stones and Quartz Porphyries of Mount Sumner District, Canterbury. By S. H. Cox, F.G.S. | 432 | ||
| Abstract Report of Council | 482 | ||
| Election of Officers for 1881 | 483 | ||
| Address by the retiring President, M. Chapman | 433 | ||
| Alpine Plants of Otago. By T. Buchanan, F.L.S. | 434 | ||
| Notes on New Zealand Cetacea, Recent and Fossil. Neobalæna marginata, Kogia breviceps, Orca gladiator, Balænoptera and Kekenodon onamata. By Dr. Hector | 434–436 | ||
| Notes on New Zealand Fishes. By Dr. Hector | 436 | ||
| Description of Maori Comb and Arrow Heads. By T. W. Kirk | 436 | ||
| Notes on Dr. Dudgeon's Experiments regarding the Temperature of the Breath. By W. Skey | 437 | ||
| Remarks on New Zealand Olives. By T. Kirk, F.L.S. | 437 | ||
| On the Occurrence of Friodia in New Zealand. By T. Kirk | 437 | ||
| A Revision of the New Zealand Lepidia, with Description of new Species. By T. Kirk | 437 | ||
| Notes on Plants recently added to the New Zealand Flora. By T. Kirk | 487 | ||
| Notes on Plants from Campbell Island. By T. Kirk | 437 | ||
| Exhibition of Gold Quartz from Te Aroha and Terawhiti; Coal from Wairarapa; Galena and Zinc Blende from Tararua Mountains, and Description of Locality in which the Terawhiti Specimen was found. By Dr. Hector | 487 | ||
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| Lecture on Afghanistan and Central Asia. By the Right Rev. W. G. Cowie, D.D. | 438 | ||
| Lecture on Chromatics. By J. Martin, F.G.S. | 438 | ||
| Lecture on Edgar Allen Poe, a Study in Morbid Psychology. By E. A. Mackechnie | 438 | ||
| Opening Address. By Dr. Purchas | 438 | ||
| On Art and Literature. By Albin Martin | 439 | ||
| Exhibition of Group of Birds of Paradise | 439 | ||
| Lecture on Russia and the Turkomans. By Hon. Col. Haultain | 439 | ||
| On Runes. By Neil Heath, F.G.S. | 439 | ||
| Lecture on Explosives. By J. A. Pond | 439 | ||
| Additions to Museum and Library | 440 | ||
| Names of Places, and their Origin and Meaning. By the Rev. J. Bates | 440 | ||
| On the Spontaneity or Self-action of the Will, as opposed to all doctrines of necessity. By the Rev. S. Edgar | 440 | ||
| Lecture on the Exodus of Israel. By R. S. Barstow | 441 | ||
| Lecture—A day on the Ice around Mount Blanc. By Neil Heath, F.G.S. | 441 | ||
| Remarks on Dr. Curl's paper on the Growth of Sugar-beet in New Zealand. By R. R. Hunt | 441 | ||
| On Heredity. By E. A. Mackechnie | 443 | ||
| Abstract of Annual Report | 444 | ||
| Election of Office-bearers for 1881 | 444 | ||