INDEX. 



Tongue of the Ocean, the, 176 



Tripang, 129 



Tmk, 261 



Tubipora fimbriata, 61 

 „ syringa, 61 



Tubuai, 260, 288 



Tubularia, 77 



Tuomey, M., on Florida reefs, 167 



Tutuila, 261, 279 



Tyerman on Huahine, 287 

 „ on Rurutu, 288 



Ualan, 262, 283 



Umbenularid?e, 70 



Upolu, 261, 279 



„ thickness of reef, 126 

 „ harbour of, at Apia, 205 ; 

 at Falifa, 208 



Urticina crassicor. lasso-cells, 13-17 



Vanikoro Group, 262 



Vavau, 260, 289 



Veretillum Stimpsoni, 68, 69 



, , cynomorium, phosphor- 



escence of, 69 



Verrill, A. E., on Cancrisocia ex- 

 pansa, 7 ; on Epi- 

 actis prolifera, 21 ; 

 on coral secretion, 

 22 ; classification of 

 Actinoid corals, 40 ; 

 compartments in 

 Alcyonia all ambu- 

 lacral, 58 ; Anthelia 

 and Telesto, 60 ; 

 spicules of Gor- 

 gonise, 63 ; on a 

 species of Veretil- 

 lum and Cophobe- 

 lemnon, 68 ; on 

 corals of Panama, 



86 ; corals of La 

 Paz, JS6 ; corals of 

 the West Indies, 



87 ; corals of the 

 Brazilian coast, 87 ; 

 corals of the Bermu- 

 das, 87 ; Whipple's 

 observations on co- 

 rals of a wreck, 

 99, 100; accepted 

 names for species in 

 Dana's Zoophytes, 

 327—336 J 



Vincennes Island, 146, 165 



Virgularidae, 70 



Volcanic action, effect of, in limit- 

 ing the distribution of corals, 

 257, 264, 273 



Vorticella, nature of, 374 



Vulcano, 264 



Waihu, 259 



Wallis's Island, 261, 293 



Washington Island, 140, 161, 290 



Wateoo or Atiu, 288 



Water on coral islands, 241 



Waterlandt, 165 



Waves, action of on coasts, 196 — 

 199 

 ,, force of, Stevenson, 191 



West Indies, corals of, 87 



Weinland, L). F., rate of growth of 

 corals, 97 



Whippey Harbour, 209 



Whipple, J. A., corals from a wreck, 

 99, 100 



,, ,, coral heads of Turk's 

 Island, 1 10, III 



Whitnell, S. J., on ElUce Island, 



293 

 ,, ,, freshwater lagoon on 

 Quiros Island, 242 

 Whitsunday Island, 139 

 Williams's Missionary Enterprises, 

 260 

 ,, rock and caverns of 



Atiu, 158, 310 

 ,, on Mangaia, Atiu, and 



Rurutu, 287, 288 

 Williams, S. W., on Biche-de-mar, 



129 

 Wilson's Island, 165 

 Winds about coral islands, 254 



„ effects of, 200 — 203 

 Wolchonsky, 136 

 Xenia Uan^, 58 

 ,, elongata, 59 

 ,, florida, 58 

 Yap or Eap, 262 

 Zoanthacea, 40 

 Zoanthus Americana, 40 

 Zoophyte, 27. 28 



Zoophytes, names now used for 

 species in Dana's Report on, 

 Verrill, 379 

 Zoothome, 28, 39 



