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NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE.
Thirty-second Annual Report 541–545
Accounts for 1899–1900 545

PROCEEDINGS.

WELLINGTON PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.
Notes on Additions to the Museum. By Sir James Hector 549
Description of Great Spider-crab (Paramicippa grandis). By Sir J. Hector 550
Remarks on the Chemistry of Tutu 550
Remarks on the Fog of 19th June 551
Remarks on the Papatu Cave, Ormondville 551
Remarks on Rats and Plague 552
Notes on Recent Additions to the Museum. By Sir J. Hector 551
Early Explorations and Colonisation of Western Canada. By Sir J. Hector 552–554
On a Remarkable Lycopodium. By Sir J. Hector 554
Appreciation of the late William Skey 555
Motions of the Atmosphere in the Southern Hemisphere 555
The Regrowth of Totara 555
Notes on Natural-history Exhibits 555–556
On "Giotto's Circle" and Writing 556
On the Bite of the Katipo 556–557
Remarks on Hydridæ and other Sea-snakes. By Sir J. Hector 557
Remarks on Exhibits 557–558
On Sponges from the Chatham Islands. By Sir J. Hector 558
On the Conservation of Native Birds: a Letter from Professor Newton, of Cambridge 559
Abstract of Annual Report 560
Election of Officers for 1901 560
On Seismograms of Distant Earthquakes. By G. Hogben, M.A. 560–562
Description of Exhibits. By Sir J. Hector 562
Remarks on a Supposed Specimen of Salmo salar. By Sir J. Hector 562–563
Remarks on Photographs taken by R. Henry, of the Reserve at Dusky Sound 563
AUCKLAND INSTITUTE.
The Rotomahana of To-day. By J. A. Pond 564
Notes on the Ti Pore 564
A Nation's Ingratitude. By E. A. Mackechnie 564
The Sexual Theory in Plants. By Professor H. W. Segar 565
On the Geology of the Auckland Domain. By P. Marshall, D.Sc. 565
On Democracy and Popular Government. By Dr. H. Macarthur 565
The Relation between Light and Electric Force. By E. V. Miller 565
On the Waitakerei Ranges. By Professor A. P. W. Thomas 565