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PAGES.
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| River Terraces. By Professor F. W. Hutton |
424
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| Thought Transference. By R. M. Laing, M.A. |
425
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| The Stone Age in Europe. By Professor F. W. Hutton |
425
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| Annual Report
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| Election of Officers for 1886 |
426
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| The Role af Phosphorus in Nature. By the President |
426
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| Moas and Moa-hunters. By Professor J. von Haast, C.M.G., Ph.D., F.R.S. |
426
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| OTAGO INSTITUTE.
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| Protest against the Exportation of Tuataras |
427
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| On the Preparation of Vegetable Tissues. By G. M. Thomson and Professor Parker |
427
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| On Explosives. By Professor Scott |
427
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| Description of a new Species of Acæna. By D. Petrie, M.A. |
428
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| On Inebriety, and the Duty of the State with regard to Inebriates. By Dr. de Zouche |
428
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| Resolution regarding the Publication of a new Handbook of the Phanerogamic Flora of New Zealand |
428
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| On the Preparation of Sections of Bones and Teeth. By Dr. Lindo Ferguson |
428
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| On the Preparation of Rock Sections. By Professor Ulrich |
428
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| Notice of Trout from Lake Wakatipu. By Professor Parker |
428
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| On the Early History of New Zealand. By Dr. Hocken |
428
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| Regarding Evolution the Previous Question of Science. By Rev. Dr. Macgregor |
429
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| Notice of Exhibits for the Colonial and Indian Exhibition. By Professor Parker |
429
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| Abstract of Annual Report |
429
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| Election of Officers for 1886 |
429
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| Abstract of Address by the Retiring President |
429–431
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| WESTLAND INSTITUTE.
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| Abstract of Annual Report |
432
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| Election of Officers for 1885–86 |
432
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| HAWKE'S BAY PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTE.
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| On the Rev. J. Pearson's Method of Computing Solar Eclipses and Occultations. By J. Harding |
433
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| Notice of Neobalæna marginata, Stenorhynchus leptonyx, Hammer Shark, and Fossils from Takapau |
433
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| On the Solar Eclipse. By T. Tanner |
433
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| On the Solar Eclipse. By R. C. Harding |
433
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| Notices of Phasma, Epiodon, Balænoptera rostrata, Coronula balænaris, and Conchoderma aurita |
433
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| On the various Legends and Stories current among the Maoris relating to the Sea and Sea Monsters. By W. Colenso, F.L.S. |
434
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| Notice of a Flying-Fish, and of Fossils from the Upper Mohaka |
434
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| On the Early Discovery of Moa Bones in New Zealand, and their Identification. By Mr. Hamilton |
434
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| Notice of Moa Bones from the North Island. By W. Colenso, F.L.S. |
434
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| On some other Extinct Birds, more particularly the Dodo and the Great Auk |
434
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| On the Study of Natural History. By Mr. Hamilton |
435
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| Abstract of Annual Report |
435
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| Election of Officers for 1886 |
435
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