489 TRANSACTIONS OF SECTION CG. 
In illustration of the word ‘ Veld’ (a term, by the way, often half Germanised, 
into a hybrid ‘ veldt’), the expression ‘ Boschveld’ is given, with the meaning 
‘bush country’ appended. ‘ Boschveld’ may be construed into forest country 
—although even ‘hen it would contain a contradiction—as a ‘ veld’ cannot be a 
forest—but it is certainly not bush country, which could only be correctly 
rendered ‘ Bosveld.’ 
It follows from what has already beer said that ‘ Kimberlite ’ is not ‘ Blaauw- 
grond’ but ‘ Blauwgrond.’ 
‘ Bosjesman’s klip’ is also misspelt, and so is ‘ Harde Bank,’ in both cases an 
‘i’ being substituted for an ‘e.’ 
Lastly, “Ijzer klip,’ when written by a Dutchman, usually wears the form 
‘IJzer klip’—note the double capital. In English it should be spelt ‘ Yzer 
klip,’ ‘IJ’ being simply the Dutch form of the English letter ‘Y.’ It bears 
some analogy to the ‘ VV ’ which we often see in the older printed books instead 
of ‘W.’ When translating a Dutch word containing ‘ IJ’ into English characters 
we should no more retain the Dutch form than we would, for example, in the 
case of the Greek ‘ P,’ otherwise we should, for the sake of consistency, adopt 
such a spelling as ‘ Phododendron.’ 
The laxity prevalent in South Africa as regards the spelling of local names 
and topographical terms generally is most remarkable, and the cacography tends 
to become perpetuated and stereotyped when writ large—as it often is—on 
railway station signboards, eg., at NAAUWPOORT or at BLAAUW- 
KRANTZ (sic), or when printed across what are ostensibly authoritative and 
standard maps of the country. The efforts which are being put forth by the 
British Association to check this looseness are therefore to be welcomed. 
8. Report on Topographical and Geological Terms used locally in South 
Africa.—See Reports, p. 149. - 
9. Report on the Faunal Succession in the Lower Carboniferous 
Limestone (Avonian) of the British Isles.—See Reports, p. 187. 
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LUESDAY, AUGUST 31. 
The following Papers and Reports were read :— 
1. The Volcano of Matavanu. By Dr. Tempest ANDERSON. 
The Volcano of Matavanu, in Savaii, an island of the Samoan group, 
was formed in 1905. It is of the efflussive type, 7.e., characterised by the 
outflow of large quantities of lava with comparatively little explosion 
or discharge of ashes, Japilli, or pumice. The crater contains a quantity 
of molten lava in constant agitation, breaking in waves on the walls, and 
throwing up fountains of liquid basalt. 'The lava is in rapid motion, and 
enters a tunnel in one end of the crater, by which it flows under the already 
solidified lava field a distance of several miles to the sea, into which it 
falls with violent explosions. The lavas throughout have been very fluid, 
and have covered a large tract of country. The paper included a discussion 
of the many resemblances and few differences between the phenomena of 
Matavanu and Kilauea in Hawaii. 
2. On Reniains of a Megalosaurian Dinosaur from New South Wales. 
By A. Smrra Woopwarp, F’.R.S. 
A tooth and a posterior caudal vertebra of a small Megalosaurian, 
characteristic in all respects, have lately been received by the British 
