List of Illustrations. Page I. Travers.—Mori-ori Carvings 22 II. Phillips.—Map of Pacific Islands 60 III. Buller.—Skull of Maori Rat 182 "New Zealand Mason Wasp 182 Buchanan.—Old Matai Tree 182 IV. Arthur.—Skew Bridges 266 V. " 268 VI. Robson.—Maori Implements 280 VII. Hutton.—Earth-worms 352 VIII. Hector.—Fishes 468 IX. "" 466 X. "" 468 XI. " Skulls of Porpoises 480 XII. " Tursio metis Bones 482 XIII. "Globiocephalus (Outline) 482 XIIIa. "" Bones 484 XIV. Buller.—Deformities in the Bill of Nestor meridionalis 340 XV. " Phalacrocorax and Eudyptula 338 XVI. Hutton.—Tertiary Shells 594 XVII. Buller.—Naultinus pulcherrimus 326 Fereday.—Catocala 326 XVIII. Buchanan.—Root of Marattia fraxinea 528 XIX. Buchanan Gnaphalium fasciculatum 528 Kirk.—Veronica canescens 528 XX. Buchanan.—Panax crassifolium 530 XXI. " Panax longissimum 530 XXII. Smith.—Geological Map, Hawke Bay 566 XXIII. " Sections of the above Map 568 XXIV. Haast.—Epiodon Teeth and Ear-bones 440 XXV. " Mesoplodon and Epiodon Skeletons 442 XXVI. " Whales' Skulls 444 XXVII. Hector.—Crab and Trilobite 474 XXVIII. Van Beneden.—Anas finschi 600 XXIX. Kirk.—Pilularia 548 XXX. " Celmisia 548