published a second volume in 1887 concentrating on volcanic phenomena. This time the Nature journal published three sentences. As his health failed he dictated a criticism of the work of James Dwight Dana. Green died at his home in Honolulu on 7 December 1890. His theory became more widely discussed into the first decades of the 20th century. For example, the French geologist Albert Auguste Cochon de Lapparent mentioned Green's work in his textbook. The American geologist Charles Henry Hitchcock, in his own 1911 book on the Hawaiian volcanoes, said: The memory of William Lowthian Green will be honored henceforth because of his success in showing why the Earth has assumed its present relief. Théophile Moreux said observations "...point more and more to the truth of an old theory which was long ignored." In their textbooks, Archibald Geikie and Arthur Holmes called the theory '"ingenious". But by the late 1920s Holmes was promoting theories of continental drift as proposed by Alfred Wegener, which evolved into concepts of plate tectonics. Modern theories view the current continental configurations as only transitory, so give no special role to the tetrahedral shape. However, they do attribute a large influence to volcanic activity as he suggested. Works Letter to William T. Brigham Letter to Sir John Lubbock See also Hawaii hotspot Evolution of Hawaiian volcanoes List of bilateral treaties signed by the Kingdom of Hawaii References 1819 births 1890 deaths People from Holborn Hawaiian Kingdom politicians Members of the Hawaiian Kingdom Privy Council Hawaiian Kingdom Foreign Ministers Members of the Hawaiian Kingdom House of Nobles Hawaiian Kingdom Interior Ministers Hawaiian Kingdom Finance Ministers Businesspeople from Hawaii Writers from Hawaii People educated at King William's College Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Hawaii 19th-century American businesspeople 19th-century British businesspeople