THE MALDIVE AND LACCADIVE GROUPS, WITH NOTES ON OTHER 

 CORAL FORMATIONS IN THE INDIAN OCEAN {concluded). 



By J. Stanley Gardiner, M.A., Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, 

 and late Balfour Student in the University of Cambridge. 



(With Plates XIX— XXI. and Text-Figs. 90—109.) 



CONTENTS. 



Appendix B. Detailed Descriptions of the Atolls and Banks. 



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I. GOIFURFEHENDU .............. 377 



II. South Mahlosmadulu 380 



III. North Mahlosmadulu 386 



IV. Miladumadulu 388 



V. Fadifolu 396 



VI. North Male 402 



VII. South Male, Felidu and Mulaku 403 



VIII. North and South Nilandu 404 



IX. Kolumadulu and Haddumati ........... 406 



X. SuvADivA Atoll 409 



XI. Addu Atoll 415 



XII. Other Atolls • ■ 419 



Appendix C. Concluding Remarks. 



General — Prof. Agassiz' visit to tiie Maldives — Caution by Admiral Sir W. J. L. Wharton 

 — Food of corals — Transplanting— Exposure to air — Death of coral colonies — Boring 



algae .........■••••••• *-" 



