title: Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand
text: # Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand
  
  The Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand was a scientific journal and magazine published by the Royal Society of New Zealand. Before 1933 the society was called the New Zealand Institute, and the journal's name was Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. It was active between 1868 and 1961 and was the most important scientific journal in New Zealand.
  
  ## Notable contributors
  
  * Thomas Cheeseman, naturalist
  * William Colenso, botanist
  * Harold John Finlay, palaeontologist and conchologist.
  * Charles Fleming, ornithologist and palaeontologist
  * James Hector, geologist
  * Thomas Hocken, botanist and anthropologist
  * Ernest Rutherford, chemist and physicist, Nobel laureate
  