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VERMEULE, C. C. 
The floods of October, 1903. — Passaic floods and their contiol. 
(Rep. State 'Geol. New Jersey, 1903, pp. 17-45.) 
WARD, HENRY A. 
Catalogue of the AVard-Coonley collection of meteorites, pp. 113, 
S plates, Chicago, 1904. 
WARREN, C. H. 
Petrog-raphical notes on the rock of the Western aqueduct. (Tech. 
Quart., vol. 17, pp. 117-123, Mar. 1904.) 
WATSON, THOS. L. 
The leopardite (quartz porphyry) of North Carolina. (Jour. Geol. 
vol., 12, pp. 215-225, Apr.-Maj', 1904.) 
WEED, W. H. 
Gypsum deposits in Montana. (Bull. 223 U. S. G. S., p. 74.) 
WILDER, F. A. 
Gypsum deposits in Iowa. (Bull. No. 223, U. S. G. S., p. 48.) 
WILSON, E. B. 
The theory of ore deposits applied to prospecting-. — Influence of 
aque-igneous solutions and fossils on ore formations. (Mines and 
Minerals, vol. 24, p. 527, June, 1904.) 
WOODMAN, J. E. 
Nomenclature of the gold-bearing metamorphic sei-ies of Nova 
Scotia. (Am. Geol., vol. 33, pp. 364-375, May, 1904.) 
WOODWARD, HENRY. 
Professor Charles Emerson Beecher. (Geol. Mag., Dec. v. vol. 1, 
p. 2S4, portrait.) 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
Eruption of Mauna Loa, 1903. On Monday afternoon, October 5, 
1903, as the British ship Ormesery was approaching the west coast of 
Hawaii, the sea was observed to be boiHng as though from great springs 
beneath the surface. The temperature increased perceptibly and the ship 
received a shock as from a tidal wave from the coast. The ship was 
forced astern by the impact. When land was sighted during the early 
afternoon of Tuesday, October 6. 1Q03, a column of smoke was noticed 
rising from the summit crater of Mauna Loa. First mate Carter who 
made the observation described the column as about two miles high and 
three-fourths of a mile wide. 
Late in the afternoon of Tuesday, October 6. the officers of the Orm- 
eserv observed what seemed to be a stream of lava flowing down the 
