434 
Distribution of corals, 108, 114. 
of coral-reets and islands, 335. 
Dolomite, formation of, 593. 
Dorippe facchino, 24. 
Drift sand-rocks, 154. 
on Oahu, 155. 
Bahamas and Bermudas, 155, 214, 
221. 
of Florida reefs, 185, 206. 
Drift of sands changing with the sea- 
sons at Baker’s Island, 297. 
Drummond’s Island, 167, 314, 315, 379. 
Duchassaing, growth of a Madrepora, 
124. 
Ducie’s Island, 371. 
Duff’s Islands, 344. 
Duke of Clarence’s Islands, 169, 374. 
Duke of York’s Island, 198, 314. 
Eap, 343. 
Easter Island, 339. 
Echinopora reflexa, 43. 
Echthorza, 35. 
Edwards & Haime, Phyllangia Ameri- 
cana, 69. 
Edwardsia callimorpha, 25, 41. 
Egmont Island, 172. 
Elevations in the Pacific, 368. 
Elizabeth Island, an elevated coral isl- 
and, 370, 384. 
Ellice’s Island, 346, 378. 
Ellice group, 301. 
Enderbury’s Island, 182, 186, 196, 577. 
Endotheea, 60. 
Koa, 341. 
Epiactis prolifera, 40. 
Epitheca, 60. 
Eugorgia aurantiaca, 87. 
Eunicella, 87. 
Eupagurus pubescens, 62. 
Evans, Lieut., consolidation of coral 
sands of Ascension Island, 392. 
Exotheca, 60. 
Exuma sound, 216. 
FaKAAFo, 168, 169, 198, 391, 374, 384. 
Fanning Group, 374, 375. 
Favosites, 77, 104. 
relation to Alveopora, 76, 77. 
INDEX. 
Feejees, corals of, 110. 
delta of Rewa, 248. 
reefs of, 262, 341, 363. 
elevations among, 378, 383. 
Whippey harbor, 249. 
Feis, 381. 
Fewkes, origin of lagoon-basin, 303. 
Fission, fissiparity, 56. 
Fissures in reef-rock, 177. 
Fitzroy, Captain, soundings by, 172. 
temperature about the Galapagos, 
336. 
Flabellum spheniscus, 43. 
Flint’s Island, 376. 
Florida Reefs, soundings, etc., 173, 185, 
204, 285. 
rate of growth of corals of, H. T. 
Woodman, 418. 
Florida region, subsidences in, 304. 
former connection with Cuba and 
South America, Heilprin, 306. 
Flustra, 105. 
Foraminifers of reefs, 152. 
Forchammer, magnesia in corals, 99. 
Four Crowns, 199. 
Frigate bird, 331. 
Fringing reefs, 129. 
Fuchs, T., light a cause limiting the 
depth of species, 118. 
rich fauna of coral-reef seas, 419. 
Fungacea, or Fungia tribe, 66. 
distribution of, 109. 
Fungia echinata, 45. 
lacera, 45, 46. 
Dane, 66. 
GALAPAGOS, temperature about, 300. 
Gambier group, 157, 266, 340, 361. 
Gardner’s Island, 377. 
Gemmipora, 75. 
Gente Hermosas, 374. 
Geographical distribution of coral reefs, 
ODD: 
Gilbert Islands, 163, 170, 183, 240, 301, 
$15, 342) 
elevations in, 379, 383. 
toddy of, 327. 
water of, 324. 
Globigerina mud, 143. 
