SMITHSONIAN REPORT. 1956.— BAYER AND HARRY-ROFEN 



1. Great, circular plates of acroporas grow one above the other like modernistic buildings 

 in this scene along a reef channel south of Ngaremediu. 



2. The convoluted mass in the foreground is a massive, fleshy alcyonarian, Sarcophyton, as 

 large as a bushel basket. This type of alcyonarian is typical of Pacific reefs, whereas in 

 the Atlantic the bushy gorgonians dominate. 



