This item is online A small elongate-oval solid volutid with height of conical spire-(broken) about half that of aperture. Whorls with fairly numerous faint axial ribs; 13 to 15...

This item is online By: George Hogben By George Hogben M.A. [ Read before the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, 6th November, 1890 .] This earthquake was felt generally throughout Canterbury...

This item is online Raoulia was founded by Hooker (1853, p. 134) to include five species, and has been maintained by subsequent taxonomists. He remarks: “As a genus, it is not e...

This item is online By: A. M. Wright; H. O. Askew By A. M. Wright , F.I.C., Chief Chemist, New Zealand Refrigerating Company Limited, and H. O. Askew , M.A., Ph.D., formerly Research Chemist, New Zealand Ref...

This item is online Dryadaula Meyr., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales xvii, 559 (1892); type, glycinopa Meyr. Head rough. Basal joint of antennae moderate. Labial palpi moderately lo...

This item is online By: Elsdon Best By Elsdon Best , F.N.Z.Inst.; Ethnologist, Dominion Museum. [ Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 19th October, 1921; received by Editor, 20th ...

This item is online By: E. M. Herriott By Miss E. M. Herriott , M.A., Communicated by Dr. Charles Chilton, C.M.Z.S. [ Read before the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, 6th December, 1916; rec...

This item is online Male. —Body smooth, legs and palpi hairy; general colour dark red-brown clouded with black. Head , rather small elliptic-globular, slightly wider than protho...

This item is online [ Read before the Auckland Institute, 20th September , 1886.] Some years ago, I prepared a catalogue of the Mollusca of Auckland Harbour, which was printed i...

This item is online 4. Pleurotoma zealandica , E. A. Smith. Sandy bays between the North Head and Lake Takapuna, at or below low water-mark. 5. P. albula , Hutton. A few worn sp...

This item is online By: H. Hill By H. Hill , B.A. [ Read before the Hawke's Bay Philosophical Institute, 13th October, 1890 .] The Progress Report No. 18 of the Geological Survey, for the y...

This item is online Many different plaits are known to the Maori, each of which has its special uses. Among others are the following:— Topiki . Whiri-papa: A flat plait. Whiri-k...

This item is online “ It is quite true that you introduced modern botany into New Zealand, and you did more than anyone else for the biological understanding of the New Zealand ...

This item is online By: P. Marshall By Dr. P. Marshall . [ Read before the Otago Institute, 8th July, 1902 .] During a short stay at Kingston in March, 1902, an examination was made of the mora...

This item is online By: James Park By Professor James Park , F.G.S., Director, Otago University School of Mines. [ Read before the Otago Institute, 11th November, 1902 .] The discovery of rock...

This item is online By: James Park By Professor James Park , F.G.S., Director, Otago University School of Mines. [ Read before the Otago Institute, 8th July, 1902 .] During a geological survey...

This item is online The following Act reconstituting the Institute was passed by Parliament:— 1903, No. 48. An Act to reconstitute the New Zealand Institute. [ 18th November, 19...

This item is online The Colonial Museum has for some years possessed an eider duck ( Somateria mollissima ) in good plumage, and has recently received, through the kind efforts ...

This item is online Owing to the very inclement weather an address and a paper prepared for the meeting were postponed. The Secretary laid on the table and made some remarks upo...

This item is online By Professor T. G. R. Blunt Address .—Professor T. G. R. Blunt delivered an address on “The Provencal Troubadours.” Paper.—“Musci of the Calcareous Districts...