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VOLUME XVI. of the Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute contains the more important memoirs laid before its eight incorporated Societies during the year 1883 and the first weeks of 1884. It forms a bulky volume of about 650 pages, and is illustrated by 44 plates. It speaks a great deal for the energy of the able editor, Dr. James Hector, F.R. S., that he has in so short a time reduced such a mass of material into order, and that the volume should be issued in May of this year. While we think the illustrations still leave something to be desired as to their general style and execution, this volume is extremely creditable to the colony, and the amount of accurate research recorded will, if continued, soon make New Zealand one of the most completely investigated regions of the world. Of the 57 articles selected from the papers read before the local Societies, 25 relate to zoology, 22 to botany, 5 to geology, 1 to chemistry, and 4 to miscellaneous subjects. While of the titles of these papers we append a classified list, some few of them merit a more particular reference.
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Transactions of the New Zealand Institute . Nature 31, 22–24 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/031022a0
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