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Contents.
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Art. PAGES.


LIII. Description of Mayor Island, Bay of Plenty. By E. C. Gold-Smith 417–427
LIV. On the Establishment of a Grand Hotel and Sanatorium in the Rotorua District. By James Stewart, M. Inst. C.E. 427–435
LV. Cat's Eye Bay. By Donald Sutherland 435–436
NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE.
Sixteenth Annual Report of the Board of Governors 439–440

PROCEEDINGS.
WELLINGTON PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.
Address by the President, Dr. Buller, C.M.G., F.R.S. (abstract) 443–446
On a Deposit of Ironstone at Kawakawa, Bay of Islands. By A. McKay 446
On the Geology of Kawhia Harbour and the Mokau Country. By Dr. Hector 447
On the Suitability of New Zealand White Pine when creosoted for Railway Sleepers. By Dr. Hector 447
Notes on an Excursion to the Islands of Tonga, Samoa, Fiji, etc. By J. C. Crawford 447
On a Peculiar Form of Gold in Quartz. By Dr. Hector 447
List of Plants injured by Frost, at Taita, near Wellington. By T. Mason 447–448
Review of a Paper on the Moa by A. de Quatrefages. By W. M. Maskell 448
Notes on Identity of Minerals from the Wade and Makara. By Dr. Hector 448
On the Kea or Mountain Parrot. By A. McKay (abstract) 449
On Floating Breakwaters. By E. A. Gibbon 449
Abstract of Report for 1884 449–450
Election of Officers for 1885 450
On Australian Cave Paintings 450
Remarks on new New Zealand Birds. By Dr. Buller (abstract) 450
AUCKLAND INSTITUTE.
Anniversary Address by the President (abstract) 451–452
Notes on a Bird called Malau. By the Rev. S. W. Baker (abstract) 452
A Decade of new Feroniidæ. By Captain T. Broun, M.E.S. 452
New Species of Pselaphidæ. By Captain Broun 453
The Curse of Charity. By E. A. Mackechnie (abstract) 453–454
Observations on Geyser Eruptions and Terrace Formations. Part I. By J. Martin, F.G.S. 454
Buddhism and its Evolution Theories. Part I. By J. Murray Moore, M.D. 454
Geyser Eruptions and Terrace Formations. Part II. By J. Martin, F.G.S. 454
New Species of Coleoptera. By Captain T. Broun, M.E.S. 454
Buddhism and its Evolution Theories. Part II. By J. Murray Moore, M.D. 454
A successful Litigant. By E. A. Mackechnie 455
Notes on the Fertilization of certain New Zealand Plants. By T. F. Cheeseman, F.L.S. 455
On re-naming New Zealand. By W. H. Blyth 455
Abstract of Report for 1884 455–456
Election of Officers for 1885 456
PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTE OF CANTERBURY.
On Earthquakes. By Professor Hutton 457
Technical Education. By D. Blair 457
The Diamond Fields of South Africa. By Professor Hutton 457