Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, Volume 29J. Hughes, Printer, 1897 The proceedings or notices of the member institutes of the society form part of the section "Proceedings" in each volume; lists of members are included in v. 1-41, 43-60, 64- |
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abdominal abundant Ahipara amongst animals antennæ apex apical spines appears Apteryx Australia Banks and Sol base birds branch broad Calyptra Cape Reinga Capsule coal coast colour Coprosma coxæ cultivated Cunn dorsal femora femur Fore and middle Fore tibiæ Forst genus hairs Harbour head Hemideina hind femora Hind tibiæ Hook inner insect joints Kaitaia Kâsim Lake leaves length lobes lower Malay male Mangonui Maori margin mesonotum metatarsus middle femora middle tibiæ Museum N.Z. Inst narrow native nitrogen North Cape North Island Ohora Operculum Otago outer pairs of apical Parengarenga Harbour perichætial leaf Peristome pinnules plants Polynesia portion posterior pronotum puparium round short side slender slightly South species specimens spinnerets Spirits Bay stem leaf Stewart Island subgenital plate surface swamps tapering throughout the district tibia tibiæ tion Trans upper vegetation Vicinity of Mangonui width Zealand Zealand Institute
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Page 128 - Where are you now? and what is your amount? Vexation, disappointment, and remorse. Sad sickening thought ! and yet deluded man, A scene of crude disjointed visions past, And broken slumbers, rises still resolv'd, With new-flush'd hopes, to run the giddy round.
Page 125 - Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through nature up to nature's God...
Page 146 - Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme! O teach me what is good; teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit; and fill my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss!
Page 143 - The pleasure we felt on discovering the Southern Cross was warmly shared by such of the crew as had lived in the colonies. In the solitude of the seas, we hail a star as a friend from whom we have long been separated. Among the Portuguese and the Spaniards, peculiar motives seem to increase this feeling; a religious sentiment attaches them to a constellation, the form of which recalls the sign of the faith planted by their ancestors in the deserts of the New World...
Page 143 - June, in lat. 14° 6' 45", we beheld for the first time that glorious constellation of the southern heavens, the Cross, which is to navigators a token of peace, and, according to its position, indicates the hours of the night. "We had long wished for this constellation, as a guide to the other hemisphere ; we therefore felt inexpressible pleasure when we perceived it in the resplendent firmament.
Page 136 - Patagonia, that they do not on ordinary occasions extend their daily excursions to any great distance from their regular sleeping-places. The condors may oftentimes be seen at a great height, soaring over a certain spot in the most graceful circles. On some occasions I am sure that they do this only for pleasure...
Page 21 - belt (coupent) the trees about 2 or 3 feet from the ground, then they trim off all the branches and burn them at the foot of the tree in order to kill it, and afterwards they take away the roots. This being done, the women carefully clean up the ground between the trees, and at every step they dig a round hole, in which they sow 9 or 10 grains of maiz, which they have first carefully selected and soaked for some days in water...
Page 39 - Sea, navigated the southern sea ; when autumn came they went ashore and sowed the land, by whatever part of Libya they happened to be sailing, and waited for harvest ; then having reaped the corn they put to sea again. When two years had passed, in the third, having doubled the Pillars of Hercules, they arrived in Egypt...
Page 39 - If you sail for Kahiki you will discover new constellations and strange stars over the deep ocean. When you arrive at the piko-o-wakea (equator) you will lose sight of Hoku-paa (the North Star), and then Newe...
Page 39 - Libya shows itself to be surrounded by water, except so much of it as borders upon Asia. Neco, king of Egypt, was the first whom we know of, that proved this ; he, when he had...