On Ncphclinc-basulfc from Yingc-mcn, Manchuria. 



To mention the only remaining locality, an occurrence of a 

 nepheline-basalt was cited by A. Lanick'^ from Yami-slian^ whicli 

 lies to the west of the town of Wei-lidcn in Kiau-clian, It is an 

 amygdaluidal rock in which nepheline is present not in the form 

 of crystals, but as a leptomorpliic mesostasis. So much for our 

 present knowledge of the alkaline rocks within the western Pacific 

 territory. 



Localities of the MancUurian NepJieline-hamlt. — It may not be 

 out of place here to I'emark briefly on the region in which the 

 present nephline-basalt is found. So far as I know, it is the first 

 occurrence in Manchuria of this kind of rock ever recorded in 

 petrographical literature. As the region is entirely unknown to the 



1) Kir-)ior? (lake), 2 degrees west of Kahjan. The longitude is probal>ly referred to a 

 Russian meridian. 



2) Dalai-nor? lying to the X.X.E. of Dolon-nor (Lauia-miau). 



3) " Beitrage zur Pétrographie von West-Schantung." Inaugural-Dissertation, Leipzig, 

 1908, S. 32. 



