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Contents. Obituaries. Pages James Scott Maclaurin 183 Edward Kidson 186 Agriculture. An Iodine Survey of New Zealand Live Stock. Part V—Sheep of the North Island. By D. F. Waters 49 Astronomy Catalogue of Aurora Australis Displays, 1931–1938. By M. Geddes 381 Observation of Meteors for the Years 1935–1938 in New Zealand. By R. A. McIntosh 392 Botany. New Zealand Seaweeds—Reference List No. II. The Rhodophyceae— Part A. (Bangiales, Nemalionales, Cryptonemiales, and Gigartinales.) By R. M. Laing 134 The Mould Fungi of New Zealand. II—The Genus Aspergillus. By J. C. Neill. 237 Notes on the Puccinelliae of New Zealand. By H. H. Allan and P. Jansen 265 Notes on New Zealand Floristic Botany, including Descriptions of New Species, etc.—No. 7. By H. H. Allan. 270 The Glaucous Hebe of the Inland Patea. By N L. Elder. 373 Note on the Tetrasporic Form of Gigartina alveata. By Victor W. Lindauer. 378

Chemistry. The Temperate Coefficient of the Decomposition of N-chloracetanilide. By R. A. Robinson and G. M. Smith 41 Entomology. Mosquito Life in the Auckland District. By David H. Graham. 210 Occurrence of Dasypodia selenophora in Southland. By J. H. Sorensen. 225 Additions to New Zealand Rhyacophilidae. Part 1. By A. G. McFablane. 330 Carposina adreptella. By F. J. Jeffreys. 341 Hexatricha pulverulenta Westwood. By F. J. Jeffreys. 347 The Validity of the Coccid Genus Eulecanium Cockerell. By G. Brittin 410 The Life History of Lecanium (Eulecanium) persicae (Fabricius), and Descriptions of the Different Instars. By G. Brittin 413 The Carabidae (Coleopteia) of New Zealand (Part 1. Pterostichini). By Everard B. Britton 473 Geology. Mineralogical Notes from the University of Otago, New Zealand—No. 2. By W. N. Benson and F. J. Tritton 56 The Bob's Cove Tertiary Beds and the Moonlight Thrust-Fault. By C. O. Hutton 73 Variation of Gravity within the Earth. By K. E. Bullen. 188 Mineralogical Notes from the University of Otago, N.Z. No. 3—Kaersutite and Other Brown Amphiboles in the Cainozoic Igneous Rocks of the Dunedin District. By W. N. Benson. 283 The Makara and Karori Valleys and Their Bearing Upon the Physiographic History of Wellington. By M. Gage 401

Mythology. The Birth, Growth, and Death of a Legend. By G. B. Palmer 165 Palaeontology. New Zealand Foraminifera: Key Species in Stratigraphy—No. 2. By H. J. Finlay 89 Review of the Tertiary and Recent Neozelanic Pyramidellid Molluscs. No. 6—The Genus Odostomia. By C. R. Laws. 191 N.Z. Foraminifera: Key Species in Stratigraphy—No. 3. By H. J. Finlay. 309 New Zealand Foraminifera: Key Species in Stratigraphy. No. 4. By H. J. Finlay 448 The Waitotaran Faunule at Kaawa Creek—Part 3. By C. R. Laws 427 Zoology. A New Fresh-water Fish of the Genus Philypnodon. By G. Stokell 129 Descriptive Notes on Some New Zealand Fishes. By Gilbert P. Whitley and W. J. Phillipps. 228 Breeding Habits of the Fishes of Otago Harbour and Adjacent Seas. By David H. Graham. 361 A New Species of Galaxias. By G. Stokeli. 422 A Second Specimen of Callanthias in New Zealand Waters. By David H. Graham 425 Proceedings. Annual Meeting 5 Presidential Address 26 Appendix 509