THE 



QUARTERLY JOURNAL 



OF 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



December 3, 1856. 



J. G. Croker, M,D., the Rev. E. F. Witts, the Rev. E. Duke, 

 H. Bevan, M.D., the Rev. J. B. P. Dennis, and P. D. Margesson, 

 Capt. R.A., were elected Fellows. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. On the Volcanic Eruption at Hawaii in 1855-56. 

 By F. A. Weld, Esq. In a Letter to Sir C. Lyell, V.P.G.S. 



You have done me the honour to say that any notes I could furnish 

 concerning my visit to the Hawaiian volcanos, during the great erup- 

 tion of 1855-56, would be of interest ; unfortmiately they can be only 

 the reminiscences of an observer, not the researches of a scientific 

 man ; but, such as they are, I place them at your service. 



I landed in the Sandwich Islands in October 1855, with the Hon. 

 J. F. Stuart Wortley, in the island of Maui ; and, hearing of the 

 great eruption of ^Launa Loa on the Island of Hawaii, we lost no 

 time in proceeding thither by the earUest opportunity that offered 



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On the north-eastern coast, gradually rising from the clumps of 

 cocoa-nut palms on the beach, sloping tracts of light-red volcanic 

 soil and scorise, intersected by ravines, and partially covered with 



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