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Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Volume 72, 1942-43, Unnumbered Page

Contents. Astronomy. Page The Physical Characteristics of Meteors. By R. A. McIntosh. 301 Botany. Notes on Some New Zealand Plants and Descriptions of New Species. By G. Simpson and J. Scott Thomson 21 Some Hitherto Unrecorded Plant Stations. By A. J. Healy. 324 Observations on the Growth of Macrocystis in N.Z. By Lucy B. Moore. 333 Variation in Senecio kirkii Hook. f. By F. J. Newhook. 341 Geology. Fuchsite-bearing Schists from Dead Horse Creek, Western Otago. By C. O. Hutton 53 Geology of the West Coast of the Firth of Thames. By D. A. Brown 69 The Basic Igneous Rocks of Eastern Otago and their Tectonic Environment. Part II. By W. N. Benson 35 Current Views on the Origin and Tectonic Signification of Schistosity. By F. J. Turner 119 A Detail of the Pukaki Moraine. By R. Speight 148 The Basic Igneous Rocks of Eastern Otago and Their Tectonic Environment, Part III. By W. N. Benson 160

Francolite, a Carbonate-Apatite from Milburn, Otago. By C. O. Hutton and F. T. Seelye. 191 The Geology of the West Coast from Abut Head to Milford Sound. Part 2. Glaciation. By H. W. Wellman and R. W. Willett. 199 Preferred Orientation of Olivine Crystals in Peridotites. By F. J. Turner. 280 The Geology of the Brocken Range and the Kaiwhata Valley, East Wellington. By D. A. Brown. 347 The Igneous Rocks of the Brocken Range—Ngahape Area, Eastern Wellington. By C. O. Hutton. 353 Meteorology. Upper Winds at Little America on November 29, 1929. By C. E. Palmer. 311 Palaeontology. The Origin of the Lower Devonian Fauna of Reefton, New Zealand; with Notes on Devonian Brachiopoda. By R. S. Allan 144 Some Eocene Mollusca from New Zealand. By J. Marwick. 268 Seismology. The Ellipticities of Surfaces of Equal Density in the Earth's Interior. By K. E. Bullen 141 Zoology. The Body Appendages of Balanus decorus. By J. T. Linzey 1

The Orsillini of New Zealand. By R. L. Usinger 41 The Juvenile Plumage of Some Birds and an Interpretation of its Nature. By E. Percival 6 A New Species of Onychiurus (Collembola) from New Zealand. By J. T. Salmon 168 The Breeding Habits of Cryptoconchus porosus, (Burrow). By Beryl I. Brewin 186 The Octopodous Mollusca of New Zealand. (1) The Midget Octopus of the Coastal Waters. By W. B. Benham. 226 Notoscolex equestris, an Earthworm from the Poor Knights Islands. By W. B. Benham. 220 The Anatomy and Systematic Position of Temnocephala novaezealandiae Haswell. By Marion L. Fyfe. 253 A Study of the Little Owl, Athene noctua in New Zealand. By B. J. Marples. 237 Descriptions of Two New Species of Lepidoptera. By W. George Howes. 371 New Records of Collembola from N.Z. with Descriptions of New Genera and Species. By J. T. Salmon 373 Obituary. Arthur William Hill XXXVI Proceedings. Annual Meeting I Presidential Address XXIX Appendix (Abstracts of Papers presented to Branches) XXXIV