Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, المجلد 24Royal Society of New Zealand., 1892 Includes proceedings of member institutes of the Society and of the Society's Science Congress through v. 84, 1956/57. |
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عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
Abdomen adult female Anomalopteryx Antennæ appears Auckland base belong Birds of N.Z. bones branchial breadth broad bush Canterbury central Cephalothorax Coccids collection colour convex crater curved cutting-point denticles Dinornis dorsal endostyle F. W. Hutton femur fuscous genus Girth Glenmark greenstone Haast hairs hei-tiki height Hutt inner insect James Hector joints lateral legs length lobes male Maori margin Maxilla Metatarsus Milford Sound moa-bones Museum N.Z. Inst nearly North Island Number of Fish Otago Otago Museum outer oval pair Palapteryx Palpi Patula Pelvis Plate posterior probably Professor Owen Radula rocks Rotorua rounded says seen shells short side side-cusps skull slender slightly South species specimens spines Sternum stone surface tibia tibiæ Timaru tion Trans transverse tube tubercles upper Wanganui Wellington xxiii Zealand Zool
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الصفحة 496 - We have given the people at Tolaga a piece of glass, and in a short time they found means to drill a hole through it, in order to hang it round the neck as an ornament by a thread ; and we imagine the tool must have been a piece of this jasper. How they bring their large tools first to an edge, and sharpen the weapon which they call Patoo-Patoo, we could not certainly learn ; but probably it is by bruising the same substance to powder, and, with this, grinding two pieces against each other.
الصفحة 97 - So far as the leg-bones are concerned, my examination has shown that several of the species pass gradually one into another, so that any line separating them must be an arbitrary one ; and I should not be surprised if further knowledge showed that this applies to those species which at present appear to be distinctly marked off. For we are here dealing with a large number of individuals which lived for a very long time without the check of natural selection to eliminate the intermediate forms —...
الصفحة 493 - ... cartilage of a whale is taken. A hole is made through, and the stick firmly and accurately fixed in it. Two strings are then attached to the upper end of the stick, and by pulling them a rapid rotatory motion is given to the drill. When an indentation is once made in the pounamu the work is easy. As each flint becomes blunted it is replaced by another in the stick, until the work is done.
الصفحة 172 - The antlers of large and full-grown stags are amongst the most common and conspicuous remains of animals in peat. They are not horns which have been shed, for portions of the skull are found attached, proving that the whole animal perished. Bones of the ox, hog, horse, sheep, and other herbivorous animals, also occur ; and in Ireland and the Isle of Man, skeletons of a gigantic elk...
الصفحة 469 - On the publication of the volume in 1838* (sic) one hundred extra copies of the paper were struck off, and these I distributed to every quarter of the Islands of New Zealand where attention to such evidences was likely to be attracted. In this distribution I was efficiently aided by Colonel William Wakefield, at that period zealously carrying out in New Zealand the principles of colonisation advocated by his brother, Mr. Edward Gibbon Wakefield; by...
الصفحة 493 - A piece of pounamu and some slate will be carried when travelling, and at every halt a rub will be taken at it. Poor fellows ! They had no tobacco, and a grind at a piece of hard inanga seemed to be a stimulant.
الصفحة 493 - For the circular plate of this instrument the hardened intervertebral cartilage of a whale is taken ; a hole Is made through, and the stick firmly and accurately fixed in it Two strings are then attached to the upper end of the stick, and by pulling them a rapid rotatory motion is given to the drill.
الصفحة 465 - ... important inductions of palaeontology, the one which of all others presents the most striking and triumphant instance of the sagacious application of the principles of the correlation of organic structure enunciated by the illustrious Cuvier, — the one that may be regarded as the experimentum crucis of the Cuvierian philosophy, — I would unhesitatingly adduce the interpretation of this fragment of bone. I know not among all the marvels which palaeontology has revealed to us, a more brilliant...
الصفحة 452 - Vet this sensitive organization always appeared to be the more strange when the horribly stinking smells of two of their common articles of food — -often, in the olden times, in daily use — are considered : rotten corn (maize, dry and hard, in the cob) long steeped in water to soften it ; and dried shark. The former, 1 Trans.
الصفحة 155 - Botorua, in the Bay of Plenty, Hawke's Bay, Manawatu, Wanganui, and Taupo, there is not one word about the moa."* The Eev. JW Stack says the same ; and he has pointed out that the saying, " Ka ngaro i te ngaro a te moa " ("Lost as the moa is lost "), or, as Mr. Colenso translates it, "All have perished just as the moas have perished," which occurs in the very ancient Maori poem called the