Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, Τόμος 18J. Hughes, Printer, 1886 The proceedings or notices of the member institutes of the society form part of the section "Proceedings" in each volume; lists of members are included in v. 1-41, 43-60, 64- |
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Σελίδα vi
... known . By William Colenso , F.L.S. .. .. XXIV . A List of the Native Birds of the Petane District , Hawke's Bay , with Notes and Observations . By A Hamilton , of Petane XXV . A remarkable Variety of the New Zealand Pigeon ( Carpophaga ...
... known . By William Colenso , F.L.S. .. .. XXIV . A List of the Native Birds of the Petane District , Hawke's Bay , with Notes and Observations . By A Hamilton , of Petane XXV . A remarkable Variety of the New Zealand Pigeon ( Carpophaga ...
Σελίδα vii
... known the Botany of New Zealand . By W. Colenso , F.L.S. XLIV . A Description of some newly - discovered and rare Indigenous Plants , being a further Contribution towards the making known the Botany of New Zealand . By W. Colenso XLV ...
... known the Botany of New Zealand . By W. Colenso , F.L.S. XLIV . A Description of some newly - discovered and rare Indigenous Plants , being a further Contribution towards the making known the Botany of New Zealand . By W. Colenso XLV ...
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... ( known to us all ) that occur in the work " Early Man in Britain , " describing the Neolithic men . " The dead were buried in these tombs as they died , in a contracted or crouching posture . The For purposes of defence , they ...
... ( known to us all ) that occur in the work " Early Man in Britain , " describing the Neolithic men . " The dead were buried in these tombs as they died , in a contracted or crouching posture . The For purposes of defence , they ...
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... known to exist under water at the south - east corner of the island at Manukau . The micaceous clay - slates or argillaceous schists , with layers of quartz , occurring on the northern coast of the main island - of which specimens were ...
... known to exist under water at the south - east corner of the island at Manukau . The micaceous clay - slates or argillaceous schists , with layers of quartz , occurring on the northern coast of the main island - of which specimens were ...
Σελίδα 29
... known to their ancestors . Concerning the stone implements used by the Maoris and their ancestors , I have already stated that they called all those made of nephrite ( greenstone ) mere , and the rest okewa . It is evident that the ...
... known to their ancestors . Concerning the stone implements used by the Maoris and their ancestors , I have already stated that they called all those made of nephrite ( greenstone ) mere , and the rest okewa . It is evident that the ...
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Abdomen acuminate acute Antennæ apex Auckland bands basal base Bay of Islands beds birds branches broad brown burrow capsule cells Cephalothorax Chilton Trans cilia claw close colour costa County of Waipawa curved dark fuscous diameter dorsal Dunedin erect feet female Forewings frond genus grey hairs Hawke's Bay hindmargin Hindwings Hook Hutton inches long Institute joint Kaimatera laciniate larvæ leaves legs length limestone lines long lobes lower Lyttelton male Maori margins Matapiro Maxilla Miers Cat moderately Moll N.Z. Crust N.Z. Inst Napier narrow Norsewood oblique oblong obtuse orbicular pair pale palpi Pareora system Patea Pecten pedicels perianth Petane plant posterior recurved round Scinde Island Shakespeare Cliff short side slender slightly South Island species specimens spots stem Stewart Island stout teeth Thomson Trans tibiæ tips transverse Tuatara upper veins W.C. Obs Wanganui Wellington whitish xvii Zealand Zool
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Σελίδα 61 - If a straight line meets two straight lines, so as to make the two interior angles on the same side of it taken together less than two right angles...
Σελίδα 12 - Approach thou now the lap of earth, thy mother, the wide-extending earth, the ever-kindly ; A maiden soft as wool to him who comes with gifts, she shall protect thee from destruction's bosom. Open thyself, O earth, and press not heavily, be easy of access and of approach to him ; As mother with her robe her child, so do thou cover him, O earth...
Σελίδα 397 - ... be furnished by a theory, according to which the radiant energy which is now supposed to be dissipated into space and irrecoverably lost to our solar system, could be arrested and brought back in another form to the sun himself, there to continue the work of solar radiation.
Σελίδα 67 - ... is just as well known, if the Euclidean assumptions are true, as the geometry of any portion of this room. ... So that here we have real knowledge of something at least that concerns the Cosmos; something that is true throughout the Immensities and the Eternities.
Σελίδα 67 - ... future eternity. He knows, indeed, that the laws assumed by Euclid are true with an accuracy that no direct experiment can approach, not only in this place where we are, but in places at a distance from us that no astronomer has conceived ; but he knows this as of Here and Now ; beyond his range is a There and Then of which he knows nothing at present, but may ultimately come to know more.
Σελίδα 171 - Antennffi f, in male filiform, moderately ciliated (1), basal joint elongate, without pecten. Labial palpi long, recurved, second joint thickened with dense scales, forming a short dense triangular projecting tuft towards apex beneath, terminal joint longer than second, slightly roughened anteriorly, acute.
Σελίδα 399 - That these dissociated vapors are capable of being compressed into the solar photosphere by a process of interchange with an equal amount of reassociated...
Σελίδα 396 - The heat thus generated is proportional to the mass of the moving body and the square of its velocity, and...
Σελίδα 67 - ... properties as space and time everything was accurately known. The very constitution of those parts of it which are at an infinite distance from us, 'geometry upon the plane at infinity...
Σελίδα 63 - Now suppose that three points are taken in space, distant from one another as far as the Sun is from a Centauri, and that the shortest distances between these points are drawn so as to form a triangle. And suppose the angles of this triangle to be very accurately measured and added together; this can at present be done so accurately that the error shall certainly be less than one minute, less, therefore, than the five-thousandth part of a right angle.