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PREFACE.
The original edition of the first volume of the Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute having long been exhausted, the Government, at the request of the Board of Governors, undertook its republication.
As will be seen, the arrangement of the first edition has been somewhat changed. No extensive alterations have however been made in the Papers as originally published; and whenever at the request of authors any corrections have been made which were not merely verbal, the words added have been put in italics after those to be omitted, which are in square brackets.
Wellington, 31st May, 1875.
