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Comparative Analysis of the Contents of the "Transactions of the New Zealand Institute," &c. —continued.

The object of the foregoing tables is to show to what extent the New Zealand University lias aided in the scientific research-work which has been accomplished in the Dominion. The figures in the table work out to the following percentages : — By New Zealand University graduates ... ... ... 9'B per cent. By professors in University Colleges ... ... ... 4'o ~ By authors holding foreign degrees .. ... ... 137 By authors without "university status ... ... . 723 99-8 „ The first column includes papers by Professors Chilton, Marshall, and H. Kirk, Messrs. Speight, Laing, and others. Some of these are now professors in University Colleges, but their first research-work was done while they were still students or school-teachers. In the second are papers by Professors Parker, Bickerton, Dendy, Benham, ami others. The third contains the work of Sir James Hector, Sir J. yon Haast, Dr. Farr, Messrs. Hogben, Petrie, Meyrick, '&c. The fourth includes papers by Captain Hutton, Sir W. Kiillor, Messrs. Aston, Brown, Buchanan, Cheeseman, Cockayne, Colenso, Fereday, Hamilton, Hudson, T. Kirk, Maskell, Park, Potts, Skew Thomson, Travers, Urquhart, &c. It may be urged that a good deal of the material included in the fourth column is of comparatively little value, and this is quite true; but a glance at the list of names just given shows that it also includes the greatest part of the work done in all departments of natural history in New Zealand. Even if one-third of the whole —and this would be a large concession—were admitted to be of poor quality, yet the proportion left would still outweigh the other three classes combined. It is the case, of course, that much of the work of University men in New Zealand— e.g., Professors Parker, Benham, Dendy, Thomas, Chilton, etc.—has been published elsewhere, but this remark applies equally well to such writers as Hutton, Duller, T. Kirk, Cockayne, Park, Thomson, &c: Further, the valuable monographs on birds, Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, and Mollusca, the Floras written by Kirk and Cheeseman, and most of the papers in the Geological Survey and Chemical Laboratory reports are all by men without university status. 15th September, 1911, Geo. M. Thomson,

Volume. . ± 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 31 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 * " I •■ I Graduates of New Zealand University. 8 9 48 33 3 254 24 27J 23 31 38J 59 20 Tli 87J 175J 31$ 40 79 45| 47 75 119 23J 98| 157 414 137 128 112 320 : Professors Graduates of Without anv in New Zealand Foreign Universities TT • .. ,-. JL j University Colleges. (moltly British). University Degrees. 93 4044 15 40J 443| 30 62| 32l| 264 29| 352| 234 684 410 27 101 332 274 1664 29 <H ll| 167 250 15 52 3114 5 75 472 18 734 3094 20 63 365 24 94 3724 4 147 390| 1 41 570| 6 244 463 794 23i 445 37 34 4724 54 8O4 450 9| 35| 5134 27| 69 3924 24 484 500J 94 204 333 76 55 3514 50J 25 392" 43" 72 308 534 40 3914 6l| 154 270 174 30 366* 4l| 434 3934 114 59 326| 124 104 1944 2 35 4884 26 524 277 2,1384 861 2,9834 15,6834 1