De MR GOODCHILD ON CORALS AND CORAL REEFS. 
Western North America. The positions of these mountains 
are known to coincide with areas of quite recent uplift, 
geologically speaking. I regard these inequalities of the 
Pacific area as great terrestrial waves, due to earth move- 
ments which are even yet in progress. Slowly sinking 
along one set of zones and rising with equal slowness along 
others, these great terrestrial uplifts, slowly ridging the floor 
of the ocean, present along the crests of their waves all the 
conditions necessary for the formation of volcanoes, and at 
the same time gradually bring up the sea bottom to those 
elevations beneath the surface which are suitable for the 
commencement of the growth of coral reefs. While, there- 
fore, the foundations of some of these islands may well be 
old volcanoes whose summits are crowned by reefs of 
coral; others, and probably the majority, I should regard as 
submarine ridges brought up by earth movements still 
in progress ; while yet another set of coral reefs in the areas 
of downward movement may still be regarded, as they were 
by Darwin, as situated in areas undergoing depression. 
At a meeting held on Thursday, 28th April, Mr W. S. 
Bruce, Naturalist to the Jackson-Harmsworth Expedition, 
delivered a lecture on the Fauna of Franz Joseph Land. 
The lecture was illustrated by many lime-light views; while 
numerous types of the animal life of that peninsula were 
also exhibited. 
