Contents. Transactions. I.—Miscellaneous. Pages Art. I. Presidential Address. By James Stewart, C.E. 1–17 II. On the Senses of Insects. By G. V. Hudson 18–31 III. Notes on the Comet of April, May, and June, 1901. By G. V. Hudson 31–83 IV. The Diversions of the Whare Tapere: Some Account of the various Games, Amusements, and Trials of Skill practised by the Maori in Former Times. By Elsdon Best 84–69 V. Maori Magic: Notes upon Witchcraft, Magic Rites, and various Superstitions as practised or believed in by the Old-time Maori. By Elsdon Best 69–98 VI. The Beginnings of Literature in New Zealand: Part II., the English Section—Newspapers. By Dr. T. M. Hocken, F.L.S. 99–114 VII. On the Recent Statistics of Insanity, Cancer, and Phthisis in New Zealand. By H. W. Segar, M.A., Professor of Mathematics, University College, Auckland 115–123 VIII. On some Relics of the Moriori Race. By Arthur Dendy, D.Sc., F.L.S., Professor of Biology in the Canterbury College, University of New Zealand 123–134 IX. A Philological Study in Natural History. By Taylor White 135–145 II.—Zoology. X. On the New Zealand Lamprey. By Arthur Dendy, D.Sc., Professor of Biology in the Canterbury College; and Margaret F. Olliver, M.A. 147–149 XI. Note on an Entire Egg of a Moa, now in the Museum of the University of Otago. By Professor W. B. Benham, D.Sc., M.A., F.Z.S., University of Otago 149–151 XII. An Account of the External Anatomy of a Baby Rorqual (Balanoptera rostrata). By Professor W. B. Benham 151–155 XIII. Notes on Cogia breviceps, the Lesser Sperm Whale. By Professor W. B. Benham 155–168