Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, Volume 37J. Hughes, Printer, 1905 - Science 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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Page 82 - She was instantly seized round the waist and restrained by her brother by main force, till moaning and fainting, she lay still on the ground. At the same instant another female voice was heard from a young girl who was held by the wrists by two young men, her brothers. "Is it you? — is it you? — truly is it you? — aue!
Page x - The New Zealand Institute Act, 1903." 2. "The New Zealand Institute Act, 1867," is hereby repealed. 3. (1.) The body hitherto known as the New Zealand Institute (hereinafter referred to as "the Institute") shall consist of the Auckland Institute, the Wellington Philosophical Society, the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, the Otago Institute, the Hawke's Bay Philosophical Institute, the Nelson Institute, the...
Page 143 - LORD of the harvest ! once again We thank Thee for the ripened grain ; For crops safe carried, sent to cheer Thy servants through another year ; For all sweet holy thoughts supplied By seed-time, and by harvest-tide.
Page 12 - ... and while the latter fill the graveyards of the country with corpses, Nature distributes the balsam of life. Every organ in the human body is formed by the action of certain principles that exist in the universe, and the former attract the corresponding activity in the latter. Thus the heart is in sympathy with the elements of the sun, the brain with the moon, the gall-bladder with Mars, the kidneys with Venus, the lungs with Mercury, the liver with Jupiter, the spleen with Saturn, &c.
Page 422 - General awakening of those asleep; general ringing of bells, oscillation of chandeliers, stopping of clocks; visible disturbance of trees and shrubs.
Page 81 - ... on the rush-strewn floor ; about thirty persons. The door was shut ; the fire had burnt down, leaving nothing but glowing charcoal. The room was oppressively hot. The light was little better than dark*ness ; and the part of the room in which the tohunga sat was now in perfect darkness.
Page 189 - British and foreign trade and industry points out " that this total only includes foreign and colonial securities, coupons, and railways, and hence is exclusive of the return on British capital invested in a large number of miscellaneous industrial enterprises abroad. It is, moreover, certain that the profits assessed to income-tax form only part of the whole, and that some of these profits escape assessment, while others are not identified as foreign. . . . We are justified in concluding that £62,500,000...
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