Author:Alexander McKay

Alexander McKay
(1841–1917)

Works

Contributions to Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute

• On the Identity of the Moa-hunters with the present Maori Race (1874)
• On the Hot Winds of Canterbury (1874)
• On the Reptilian Beds of New Zealand (1876)
• On the Occurrence of Gold in the Mackenzie Country, Canterbury (1877)
• On the Genus Rhynchonella (1880)
• On a Deposit of Moa Bones near Motanau, North Canterbury (1881)
• On the Igneous Rocks of the East Coast of Wellington (1883)
• Note on a Fossil Ammonite from Nugget Point (1883)
• On the Origin of the Old Lake Basins of Otago (1883)
• On a Deposit of Ironstone at Kawakawa, Bay of Islands (1884)
• On the Kea or Mountain Parrot (1884)
• On the Age of the Napier Limestone (1885)
• The Waihao Greensands, and their Relation to the Ototara Limestone (1886)
• On the Limestones and other Rocks of the Rimutaka and Tararua Mountains (1888)
• On the Supposed Occurrence of Two Sets of Greensand-beds at Waihao Forks, South Canterbury (1888)
• Remarks on Earthquakes in the Amuri District, South Island (1888)
• On a Deposit of Diatomaceous Earth at Pakaraka, Bay of Islands, Auckland (1890)
• On some Means for increasing the Scale of Photographic Lenses and the Use of Telescopic Powers in connection with an Ordinary Camera (1890)
• On the Discovery of Leiodon Remains in Middle Waipara (1890)
• On Belemnites australis with Dicotyledonous Leaves (1890)
• On the Alleged Insular Character of Young Secondary and Older Tertiary Formations in New Zealand (1890)
• On Lithological Characters in Sequence as a Means of Correlation and as Indicative of Age (1890)
• On a Diatom Deposit near Pakaraka, Bay of Islands, Auckland (1892)
• Remarks on a Tame Kea (1893)