Professor Benham exhibited a large specimen of a spidercrab (Prionorhynchus edwardsii), one out of a haul that had recently been obtained by the fish-trawler “Express,” off the Otago Heads, in 23 fathoms of water. Hitherto the species had only been recorded from the Auckland and Campbell Islands. Dr. Hocken read a paper entitled “The Beginnings of Literature in New Zealand.” (Transactions, p. 472.) In this paper an account was given of the early efforts of the missionaries to reduce the Maori tongue to writing, and to translate and to print the Scriptures, hymns, and simple lesson-books. A number of rare specimens of these earliest publications in the Maori language was exhibited.
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Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Volume 33, 1900, Page 576
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111On a Large Spider-crab (Prionorhynchus edwardsii). Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Volume 33, 1900, Page 576
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