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Overview
Consists [largely] of the original manuscripts of scientific papers, minutes and papers received from other societies, correspondence and a wide range of material received by Hector and published in The Transactions of The New Zealand Institute.
The order that this series is arranged largely reflects the order in which the material was published in The Transactions.
Some arrangement of these previously poorly arranged papers was undertaken during 1982 and it is during this time that papers read but not published were removed, (See MU000156).
As the archives contained in this series have been published it was decided that there would be only limited value in identifying individual papers as items. It was therefore decided that the listing would specify the range of items contained within each folder. The indexes at the start of each annual published Transactions and Proceedings are available for assisting with identifying individual items.
Note that there are a number of years missing from this series. It appears that some papers suffered severe flood damage and were discarded.