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New Zealand Institute

1876 Vol IX

p 370 Gum protecting tree from injury by Beetles

[Captain Broun. On insects injurious to the Kauri Pine (Dammara australis).]

p 414 Pascoe on character of Coleoptera – relation to crus

[Francis P. Pascoe. Descriptions of New Genera and species of New Zealand Coleoptera.]

p 463 Diadema bolina caught in N. Zealand

[R. W. Fereday. On the occurrence in New Zealand of Diadema bolina, Linn.]

p 538 On rapid increase of some naturalized plants

[G. M. Thomson. Notes on some Otago Plants.]

542 Fertilisation of some Goodeniaceæ

[T. F. Cheeseman. On the fertilisation of Selliera.]

1877 Vol X.

p 14 on increase of Kangaroos in Australia – relation to sheep

Parasites – curious case of Pie-bald animals – all white & pie-bald Horses & Cattle – two with dark coast do not suffer.

[T. H. Cockburn-Hood. New Zealand a post-glacial centre of creation.]

209 Disappearance of anthornis (a bird) p 240 general causes of disappearance of native Birds – Rats

[Walter L. Buller. On the disappearance of the Korimako (Anthornis melanura.]

306 310 Changes in insects –

316 disappearance of Birds

318 rapid increase of introduced Birds

322 Rabbit

[R. Gillies. Notes on some changes in the fauna of Otago.]

349 on introduced grasses- growing in different soils – rubra requires acid of Bees.

353 Cheeseman, fertilisation of Glossostigma - with sensitive stigma

[T. F. Cheeseman. Notes on the Fertilisation of Glossostigma.]

362 Naturalised Plants

[T. Kirk. On the naturalised plants of Port Nicholson and the adjacent district.]

540 Depth between N. Zealand & Australia – [2 words illeg] between Flora of N. Zealand & islands to the north, ie Norfolk & New Caledonia.

(1879 & succeeding years I must look to end of Vol. – There was something about geographical Dispersal of importance in one vol.)