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VOLUME 1:
[Illustration of moa on card attached to inside front cover as bookplate.]
[2 tipped in prints of moa on one page. Handwritten 'Johannes C. Andersen' at head of page.]
On the fossil remains of birds collected in various parts of New Zealand by Walter Mantell / Gideon Algernon Mantell, in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, no. 15, August 1, 1848, pages 225-241.
[Handwritten notes and corrections to previous, with illustrations (some colour)] / Walter B. D. Mantell, 1850.
On the fossil remains of birds collected in various parts of New Zealand by Walter Mantell / Gideon Algernon Mantell, reprinted from the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, no. 15, August 1848, pages 1-19.
On the remains of the gigantic and presumed extinct wingless or terrestrial birds of New Zealand / Sir Richard Owen, in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 11 January, 1848, pages 1-11 [Signature of G. A. Mantell at head of caption title]
[Prospectus of a lecture on the Fossil ostrich-like birds of New Zealand] / Gideon Algernon Mantell, at the Marylbone Scientific Institution, 25 March, 1850, 3 pages (tipped-in).
Notice of the remains of the Dinornis and other birds, and of fossils and rock-specimens, recently collected by Walter Mantell / Gideon Algernon Mantell, from the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, August 1850, v. 6, pages [319]-343, plates xxviii-xxix (Running title: Mantell on the geology of New Zealand ; lightly annotated by hand of Johannes C. Andersen?)
[3 original drawings (reproduced in above article?)].
[Hand-drawn folded colour map of Otago Harbour coast].
Fossil remains of colossal birds of New Zealand / Gideon Algernon Mantell, in the Illustrated London News, 18 May 1850 : page 348 (folded, divided into 2, 1 part loose from binding)
[Original drawing of fossilized moa foot, reproduced in above article].
[Original drawing of man, moa, and kiwi, reproduced in above article].
[Address on the moa] / Gideon Algernon Mantell, in the Proceedings of the Fourth Anniversary Meeting of the Western Medical and Surgical Society of London, 12 April 1850 : pages 7-8.
[Report on Gideon Algernon Mantell's lecture on the extinct birds of New Zealand for the British Association] / in The Witness, Edinburgh, 5 August 1850.
[Handwritten note regarding Sir Richard Owen's identification of moa bone] / copied from the Quarterly Review, v. 90, 1852 : page 402.
[Report on Walter Mantell's lecture on South New Zealand - the gigantic birds for the Mechanic's Institution] / s.l., s.n., [1857?].
Notes on the moa-bones in the New Zealand exhibition of 1865 / James Hector, from the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 12 December 1865.
Notice of an egg of the great moa / James Hector, from the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 12 December 1867.
On the causes which seem to have led to the extinction of the New Zealand moa / by James Melvin, from the Transactions of the Edinburgh Geological Society, 1868, 7 pages.
Moas and moa hunters / John Francis Julius Von Haast. Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, anniversary address, delivered 1 March 1871, 16 pages (handwritten note at head of page, in hand of William Mantell)
Extinct animals of New Zealand / Richard Owen, in the Lyttelton Times, 14 July 1879 (folded page)
The Maori and the moa / Edward Tregear, reprinted from the Journal of the Anthropological Institute (London), May 1888, pages 292-304.
The moa : (Dinornis) and the probable cause of its extinction / Vincent Pyke, 1890, 8 pages (inscribed by Pike at end of article)
On the classification of the moas / Frederick Wollaston Hutton, 1891, 3 pages.
History of the moas / Frederick Wollaston Hutton, [c.1891?] (newspaper article stuck onto pages)
The moas and the moa hunters / Armand de Quarterfages de Breau, translated from the French by Laura Buller, in Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, v. 25, 1892, pages [17]-49.
Kuranui as a name for the moa / by Hare Hongi, in Journal of the Polynesian Society, v. 26, no. 2, 1917, pages [66]-67.
[Extracts on an address given by Walter Mantell on the moa to the New Zealand Institute, 5th meeting, 19 September 1868], pages 17-20, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates.
VOLUME 2 :
Papers on the moa from the Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, 1879-1894:
On the moa / by W. Colenso, from Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, 1879, vol. 12, pages 63-108.
On the moas of New Zealand / by Captain F.W. Hutton, including plates xv-xvii, from the Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, 1891, vol. 24, pages 93-172.
Loose black bordered leaf, with details on the Australian pelican and a moa egg, in handwriting of Johannes C. Andersen.
On moa gizzard-stones / A. Hamilton [from the Transactions, 1891], pages 173-175.
On the genus Aptornis, with more especial reference to Aptornis defosser, Owen / by A. Hamilton [1891, pages 175-184]
Preliminary notice of Additions to the extinct avifauna of New Zealand (abstract) / by H.O. Forbes ; communicated by J. T. Meeson [1891], pages 185-189.
Note on a species of Platcercus from Antipodes Island / by H. O. Forbes [1891], pages 191-192.
Following taken from the Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, 1892, vol. 25:
On the classification and mutual relations of the Dinornithidae / by Professor T. Jeffery Parker, pages 1-3.
On the presence of a crest of feathers in certain species of moa / by Professor T. Jeffery Parker, pages 3-6.
Plates vol. xxv, pl. I- pl. III.
New species of moas / by Captain F. W. Hutton, pages 6-13.
On Anomalopteryx antiqua / by Captain F. W. Hutton, pages 14-16.
Plates vol. xxv, pl. iv.
The moas and the moa-hunters / by Monsieur A. de Quatrefages ; translated from the French by Laura Buller ; communicated by Sir Walter L. Buller, pages 17-49.
The extinction of the moa / by Edward Tregar, pages 413-426.
On a Maori waiata / by R. C. Bruce, pages 426-428.
On the antiquity of the moa / by Captain G. Mair, pages 534-535.
[Handwritten note on preceding articles in the hand of Johannes Andersen.]
Following taken from the Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, 1893, vol. 26.
Notes on moa-skulls / by Professor T. J. Parker, pages 223-225.
Result of a further exploration of the bone-fissure at the Castle Rocks, Southland / by A. Hamilton, pages 226-229.
Plates: vol. xxvi, pl. xxiii- pl. xxiv.
Materials for a bibliography of the Dinornithidea, the great extinct birds of New Zealand, usually called moas / by A. Hamilton, pages 229-257.
[Handwritten note on preceding articles in the hand of Johannes Andersen.]
Notes and observations on M.A. de Quatrefages' paper 'On moas and moa-hunters'... / by W. Colenso, pages 498-513.
A Maori pa at Lake Te Anau / by Taylor White, pages 513-515.
Note on the supposed fire-drill found in the cave at Moa-bone point, Sumner / by Captain F. W. Hutton, pages 516-517.
[Handwritten note on preceding articles in the hand of Johannes Andersen.]
The date of the extinction of the moa / by H.C. Field, pages 560-568.
On the axial skeleton in the Dinornithidae / by Captain F. W. Hutton, from Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, vol. 27, 1894, pages 157-173.
On the occurrence of a pneumatic faramen in the femur of a moa / by Captain F. W. Hutton, from Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, vol. 27, 1894, pages 173-174.
Plate: vol. xxvii, pl. ix.
Further contributions towards a bibliography of the Dinornithidae, the great extinct birds of New Zealand, usually called moas : supplement no. 1 / by A. Hamilton, from the Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, vol. 27, 1894, pages 229-231.
On the feathers of a small species of moa (megalapteryx) found in a cave at the head of Waikaia River... / by A. Hamilton, from the Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, vol. 27, 1894, pages 232-238.
[Bibliographical reference handwritten by Johannes C. Andersen]
On the occurrence of moa-footprints in the bed of the Manawatu River, near Palmerston North / by H. Hill, from the Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, vol. 27, 1894, pages 476-477.
Plate: vol. xxvii, pl. xlvii.