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INDEX 



Basalts, grey olivine, 65-67, 73-75, 77, 

 89, 253-255, 257, 261, 263 



Basalts, highly basic, 258 



Basalts, of Acicastello, 347 ; of Mbua 

 and Ndama plains, 58, 134, 262 

 278; of Ndreketi plains, 133, 134 

 of Sarawanga plains, 129, 134, 262 

 of Savu-savu peninsula, 190, 288 

 of Seatura, 63-72, 85 ; of Solevu 

 Kav , 75-77 5 of Wainunu, 85 ; of 

 Ulu-i-ndali, 89 



Basalts associated with palagonite, 



347 

 Basic glass, 312, 338 ; see Pitchstone, 



Crush-tuffs, Hyalomelan-tuffs 

 Bastite, 182, 297 

 Baur, Mr., 380 

 Blyth, Mr., 123 

 Brady, Mr. H. B., 322, 376 

 Breccias ; see Volcanic agglomerates 

 Bronzite, 182 

 Bromlovv, Dr., 29 

 Biichner, Dr. Max, 22 

 Bulling, Mr., 32, 36, 232 

 Bunsen, on palagonite, 343, 344 



CARBONATE OF IRON, concretions of, 

 227,351,356 



Carcharodon, 376 



Chalcedony, 13, 138, 162, 183, 199, 

 226-228, 350-355 ; see Agate, Onyx, 

 Flints 



Chalmers, Mr., 233 



Charts, old and new compared, 18, 19 



Chert, 355 



Classification of volcanic rocks, 235 



Coleoptera of Fiji, 377 



Columnar structure ; see Basalt, Acid 

 andesite, Dacite, Oligoclase-trachyte 



Combe, Commander, 15 



Cooper, Mr. H. S., 29 



Coral reefs, upheaved, 7-12, 189, 200, 

 201, 318 ; their absence in the higher 

 levels, 7, 8, 12, 19, 375 



Craters, traces of, 44, 52, 67, 80, 166, 

 1 86, 192, 195, 202 



Crush-tuffs, 55, 94, 149, 157, 341 ; 

 general description, 334 ; see below 



Crushing of basic glass ; in veins, 340, 

 341 ; on surface of a submarine 

 flow , 93 338 ; in matrix of pitch- 

 stone-agglomerate and in rubbly 

 pitchstone, 94, 142, 145, 157, 313; 

 its connection with palagonite, 93, 

 339, 340-342, 346 



Cumming, Miss Gordon, 22, 25, 29 



DACITES, 3, 5, 100, 108, 235, 294, 304 ; 

 columnar, 101, 102 ; definition of 



the term, 295 ; classification and 



characters, 240, 302 ; see Acid ande- 



sites 



Dall, Dr., 376 

 Dana, Prof, 3, 10, II, 16, 21, 26, 72, 



84, 129, 135, 218, 309, 363 

 Darwin, Mr., on barrier-reefs, 373 

 Datum-mark, 195 

 David, Prof., 376 

 Deep-sea deposits, 337 

 Delanasau, 68 

 Dillon's Rock, 45 

 Diorite, 182, 193, 235, 249, 251 

 Doelter, on hornblende paramorphism, 



308 

 Doleritic, use and definition of the 



term, 236, 238, 259, 274 

 Dolomite, 7 



Dray ton, peak ; see Mariko 

 Dykes, 51,54,63,68-72, 78, 81, 142, 

 144, 148, 155, 156, 163, 164, 170, 171, 

 184, 199, 202, 209, 216, 220, 233, 234, 



267, 268, 270, 277, 280, 282 ; their 



two sets of felspar-lathes, 238 



EAKLE, Mr., 293, 294 



Earthquakes, 37 



Emergence of Vanua Levu, I, 7-20, 

 321, 376-379 5 age of, 376 



Etna, mount, coast springs of, 39 ; 

 dykes in Valle del Bove, 237 ; mag- 

 netic bomb, 364 



FAIRMAIRE, M., 377 



Faro, island, Solomon Group, 2 



Fawn, harbour, 9, 200, 3 1 8 



Felsitic andesites, 106, 108, 295, 300 ; 

 see Acid andesites and Dacites 



Felsitic groundmass, as employed in 

 classification, 236, 239, 240, 249 



Felsitic orders, 249, 291, 297, 300, 302 



Felspar-lathes in classification, 236, 

 241 



Fern, tree, silicified caudex of, 360 



Fish-scales, fossil, 1 54 



Flints, 13, 81, 83, 138, 139, 222, 226, 

 350-360 



Floating islands, 225 



Floras of Fiji, Hawaii, and Tonga, 379 



Flow-arrangement in classification, 

 236-238 



Folgheraiter, Dr., 362, 365 



Foraminiferal limestones, 130-132, 

 202, 318 



Foraminiferous deposits (tuffs, muds, 

 clays), 96, 109, 130, 134, 136, 139, 

 149, 154, 161, 170, 198, 205; de- 

 scription of, 321-333 5 altered, 324- 



