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CHEMICAL NOTE ON A RECENT LAVA FROM 

 SAVAII. 



By H. I. Jensex, B.Sc, Linnean Macleay Fellow of the 

 Society in Geology. 



During the course of making some chemical analyses of War- 

 rumbungle Mountains rocks, I also made an anal3^sis of a recent 

 lava, hyalopilitic olivine basalt (SI) from Malaiola, Savaii, of 

 which a short petrological description appeared in my paper on 

 'The Geology of Samoa' (These Proceedings, 1906, p. 666). 



The estimation resulted as follows : — 



