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Contents.
Art. PAGES


LXVI. The Date of the Extinction of the Moa. By H. C. Field 560–568
LXVII. Note on a curious Maori Flute in the Collection of the late Dr. Shortland. By Sir Walter L. Buller, K.C.M.G., F.R.S. 568–569
LXVIII. Note on a Remarkable Maori Implement in the Hunterian Museum at Glasgow. By Sir Walter L. Buller 570–572
LXIX. The Story of Papaitonga; or, A Page of Maori History. By Sir Walter L. Buller 572–584
LXX. Te Kuri maori (the Dog of New Zealand): A Reply to the Rev. W. Colenso. By Taylor White 585–600
LXXI. Spiders as Engineers. By Coleman Phillips 600–603
LXXII. On a Common Vital Force. By Coleman Phillips 604–619
LXXIII. Public Ferneries: A Suggestion. By the Rev. Philip Walsh 619–623

NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE.
Twenty-fifth Annual Report 627–628
Accounts for 1892–93 628
Memorandum regarding the New Zealand Institute: being an addition to the Annual Report presented 19th July, 1893 629–631

PROCEEDINGS.

WELLINGTON PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.
Address by the President, Major-General Schaw, C.B., R.E. 635–649
Remarks on a Fiji Snake imported with Bananas. By Sir J. Hector 650
Remarks on a Tame Kea. By A. McKay 652
On Peripatus nova-zealandiæ. By Sir J. Hector 653
On Ossiferous Clay found at Queen Charlotte Sound. By E. Tregear 654
Remarks on Apteryx maxima. By E. O'H. Canavan 654–655
Exhibits described 655
Description of Rock-paintings at Albury. By F. Huddleston 657–658
On Mental Operations in Sleep. By R. C. Harding[1] 658–659
Exhibit of Minerals from Cheviot. By Sir J. Hector 659
Note on Phytomyza affinis, Fallen. By W. M. Maskell 663
Exhibits collected by Sir J. Hector in Tasmania 665
Abstract of Annual Report 665
Election of Officers for 1894 665
  1. See also pages 687–688.