INDEX. 



343 



Dana's Report on zoophytes, size ot 

 edition of, 70 



Darwin on depth of reef corals, 89 

 ,, rate of growth of corals, 96 

 ,, origin of coral mud, 194, 195 

 ,, thickness of reefs, 126 

 ,, on sountiings, 139 

 ,, on the Maldives, 148 — 153 

 ,, on the Great Chagos Bank, 



135 



,, on the Oambier Islands, 

 227, 228 



,, on the Maldives, 232 



,, geographical distribution of 

 coral reefs, 258 



,, on consolidation of coral 

 sands, and change of posi- 

 tion with the seasons, 306 

 Dead-men's fingers, 60 

 Dean's Island. 136, 166, 285 

 Depth of reef-corals, 89 

 Dendrophyllia arborea, 52 

 ,, cornigera, 52 



,, nigrescens, 31, 51 



Depeyster Island, 137, 293 

 Diego Garcia, 139 

 Diploria cerebriformis, 44 

 Disappointment Islands, 138 

 Dissepiments, 39 

 Distribution of corals, 83, 89 

 Dolomite, formation of, 307 

 Dolomitic nature of coral rock of 



Matea, 308 

 Dorippe facchino, 7 

 Drift sand-rock, 150 

 Drummond's Island, 294 

 Ducie's Island, 286 

 Duke of Clarence's Islands, 136,289 

 Duke of York's Island, 163, 289 

 Duffs Islands, 262 

 Eap, 262 



Easter Island, 259 

 Echinoderms, characters of, 323 

 Echinopora reflexa, 23 

 Echthoraea, 16 

 Edwards & Haime, Phyllangia 



Americana, 47 

 Edwardsia callimorpha, 8, 21 

 Egmont Island, 139 

 Elevations in the Pacific, 286 

 Elizabeth Island, an elevated coral 



island, 286 

 EUice's Island, 293. 

 Enderbury's Island, 147, 151, 161, 



248, 291 



Endotheca, 39 



Eoa, 260, 288 



Epiactis prolifera, 21 



F^pitheca, 39 



P^scharella variabilis, 82 



Eugorgia aurantiaca, 64 



Eunicclla, 64 



Eupagurus pubescens, 40 



Evans, Lieut., consolidation of coral 



sands of Ascension Island, 306 

 Exotheca, 39 

 Fanning Group, 290 

 Fakaafo, 135, 136, 163, 234 

 Favosites, 80 



„ relation to Alveopora, 



54, 55 

 Peejees, corals of, 85 



„ delta of Rewa, 208 

 „ reefs of, 221, 227, 279, 280 

 „ elevations among, 293 

 Feis, 295 



Fission, fissiparity, 36 

 Fissures in reef-rock, 143 

 P'itzroy, Capt., soundings by, 139 



„ temperature about 



the Galapagos, 256 

 Flint's Island, 291 

 Florida Reefs, soundings, etc., 140, 



167, et seq 

 Florida Region, subsidences in, 316 

 Flustra, 80 



Foraminifers of reefs, 122, 377 

 Forchammer, magnesia in some 



corals, 75 

 Four Crowns, 161 

 Fresh-water lagoon at the island of 



Quiros, 242 

 Fungacea or Fungia tribe, 44 



„ distribution of, 84 

 Fungia echinata, 25 



„ lacera, 25, 26 



„ DcJnae, 45 

 Galapagos, temperature about, 



Fitzroy, 256 

 Gambler Group, 126, 227, 259, 281, 



282 

 Gardner's Island, 292 

 Gemmipora, 52 

 Geographical distribution of coral 



reefs, 255 

 Geological time, subdivisions of, 321 

 Gilbert Islands, 132, 137, 149, 237, 



261 



,, elevations in, 295 



Glacial era synchronous with the era 



