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LIST OF PHOTO-MEZZOTYPE PLATES. 



PLATE FACINC 



XVIII. Organ-Pipe-Coral Reef, Thursday Island, Torres Straits 



XIX. Alcyonarl^n Reef, Thursday Island, No. i. 



XX. A. Alcyonarian Reef, Thursday Island, No. 2. ... ... ... ... 'I 



„ B. Alcyonarian Reef, Thursday Island, No. 3. ... ... ... ... I 



XXI. Giant Anemone, Discosoma Haddoni 



XXII. No. I. Stinging Anemone, Actinodendron alcyonoideum ... ... ... ... \ 



„ No. 2. Stinging Anemone, Megalactis Griffithsii ... ... ... ... ... J 



XXIII. Mushroom-Corals, Fungia Crassitentacul.^ta, Expanded, Contracted, and "| 



Young Attached, Conditions ... ... ... ... ... J 



XXIV. No. I. Mushroom Coral, with Att.ached Young ... ... ... ... ... "] 



,, No. 2. Mushroom-Corals, Fully E.xpanded ... ... ... ... ... I 



XXV. Living Corals, with Expanded Polyps 



XXVI. Organ-Pipe-Coral, with Expanded Polyps 



XXVII. Author's Methods of Photographing Submerged Corals and Beche-de-mer ... 



XXVIII. Palm Islands Reef, with Submerged Sea-Urchins 



XXIX. a. Outer Barrier Reef, with Giant Clams and Beche-de-mer ... ... ... \ 



„ E. Outer Barrier Reef, with Empty Shell of Giant Clam ... ... ... I 



XXX. A. Flotsam. — Wreck of New Guinea Mission Schooner "Harrier" ... ... "j 



„ B. Jetsam. — Storm-Stranded Coral-Rocks, Capricorn Islands Reef ... ... I 



XXXI. Hurricane-Stranded Corals, Fringing Reef, Port Denison ... 



XXXII. Specimens of Coral-Rock Conglomerates 



XXXIII. A. Outer Barrier Reef, with Submerged Beche-de-mer... ... ... ... "j 



„ B. Lady Elliot Island Reef, with Extended Beche-de-mer ... .... ... I 



XXXIV. Beche-de-mer, Small Lolly-Fish, Spotted-Fish, Teat-Fish 

 XXXV. A. Snake-like Beche-de-mer; B — Prickly-Fish ... 



XXXVI. Natives of Warrior Island, Torres Strait, Preparing Beche-de-mer for the "j 

 Chinese Market ... ... ... ... ... ... ... I 



XXXVII. Queensland Pearls 



XXXVIII. Mother-of-Pearl Shells and Artificially-Produced Pearl ... 



XXXIX. Mangrove Oyster-Bank, Keppel Bay ; Mangrove Oysters, Endeavour Estuary 



XL. Oyster Reef, Keppel Bay; Coral-Rock Oysters 



XLI. Cultivated Oy.ster-Bank, Moreton Bay; Whelk-Oyster-Bank, Moreton Bay ... 



XLII. Barrier Reef Shells^ on Sponge Table 



„ Barrier Reef Shells, Artistically utilised ... 



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