144 Miscellaneous — Antcu^ctic Expedition. 



If Mr. A.. R. Hunt will read my papers, he will find that a very- 

 full use is made of the experimental geology of foreign workers, 

 where they explain the genesis of minerals or rock structure in 

 igneous and metamorphic rocks. 



I rather fear that the experiment of the piece of granite, suggested 

 by Mr. Hunt, is not a fair rt^production of natural conditions. We 

 must not expect the packing of any rock at great depths to allow 

 fissures. The flow of solids under such conditions of high pressure 

 and high temperature will reduce all rock substances to some advanced 

 degree of viscosity, and allow the ' ecoulement des solides ', which, 

 even in superficial rocks such as are found in mines, is known as 

 ' ci'eep '. The transmission of water to igneous foci is really a process 

 of hydration and solution (and not percolation), too long to discuss in 

 this letter. 



I shall be pleased to supply Mr. Hunt with a list of my papers to 

 which he may refer. 



H. J. Jounston-Lavis. 



Beaulieu-sur-Mer. 

 February 12, 1913. 



ZVLISCEI1.3L..A_3SrE) OXJS. 



Antarctic Expkdition. 

 In ]\Iemoriam. 

 It is with deep regret that we briefly record the deaths from 

 exposure and starvation, after accomplishing their mission to reach 

 the South Pole, of the heroic five. Captain Robert Falcon Scott, 

 Captain L. E. G. Gates, Dr. E. A. Wilson, Lieut. H. R. Bowers, and 

 Petty Gfficer Edgar Evans. They had arrived within eleven miles of 

 their stores, but a blizzard which lasted nine days and nights over- 

 whelmed them. It is but poor comfort to know that the relief party 

 found and buried the unfortunate explorers and recovered all their 

 records and geological specimens. 



Croydon's 'Woe Waters'. — Croydon's mysterious 'woe waters', 

 the Bourne flow, made its appearance yesterday in Caterham Valley. 

 In a few weeks the tiny stream on Welford's Farm, Whyteleafe, will 

 have become a rushing brook, overflowing its banks for miles down 

 the valley to Purley. Griginally each visitation was regarded as 

 foretelling war, plague, or famine. Mr. Baldwin Latham, M. Inst. C. E., 

 who has studied each flow since 1866, attributes it to the uprising of 

 the ground-water (jdane of saturation) in the Chalk, after periods 

 of much rain. He fixed the flow this year for February 3. — In part 

 from the Daily Telegraph, February 1, 1913. 



Erratum. — In a review of a memoir on " The Sedimentary 

 Deposition of Gil ", by Dr. Murray Stuart, F.G.S., Professor of 

 Geology in Presidency College, Madras, the author's name was by an 

 oversight printed "Stewart" (see Geol. Mag., December, 1912, 

 pp. 570-1, and in the Index, p. 583). Please correct to " Stuart". 

 The Editor expresses his deep regret. 



