216 PROCEEDINGS OF SECTION C. 



In a short paper on the West Coast Sounds the present autlior 

 refers briefly to the structure and petrology of the rocks of that 

 little-known area. 



Dr. Marshall furnished to the last meeting of the Association a 

 brief report on the general conclusions of the members of the recent 

 expedition to the Southern Islands of New Zealand. It may be 

 mentioned here that this expedition found undoubted signs of former 

 extension of a continental area in that region, but no evidence as 

 to the date of this extension, although there is undoubted evidence 

 of the existence of shallow water near the Campbell Islands in 

 Miocene times, the existence of an old shore line or large river on 

 the Auckland Islands at a time previous to the pouring out of the 

 basalt flows of which the islands are chiefly constructed, and also, 

 fairly sound evidence that these eruptions, even in their early stages,, 

 were sub^rial and not submarine. 



