INDEX. 



Ahaco I>land, 46. 

 Acaiithogorgia, 86. 

 Acanthomj'x petiverii, 209. 

 Accident on Pourtales Plateau, 141. 

 Achelons spiniinanus, 125. 

 Acridiidte, 208. 

 Actaea palmeri, 51. 

 spetigera, 124. 

 Actinians at Bahia Honda, 99. 



method of killing, 99. 

 Actinometra near Havana, 76. 

 Actinopterjx fucicola, 121. 

 ^gialitis semipalmata, 40. 

 wilsonia rufinucha, 40. 

 Agapostenion femoralis, 206. 

 Agassiz, Alexander, 2, 169, 173, 180. 

 introduction of iron rope in 



dredging bj, 3. 

 advises dredging on PourtaleS' 

 Plateau, 139. 

 Agassiz, Louis, 2. 

 Agave, 43. 



at Bahia Honda, 99. 

 Agaricia agaricites, 134. 

 Aglaophenia, 89, 179. 

 apocarpa, 179. 

 gracilis, 179. 

 lopliocarpa, 89. 

 ininuta, 30, 54. 

 perlorata, 54, 225. 

 perpusilla, 225. 

 rh vnchocarpa, 89. 

 ligida, 179. 

 signia, 180. 

 Aground, liiy. 



Aid rendered bv Alexander Agassiz, 

 8. 



Aid rendered bj Capt. J.W. Collins, 8. 

 Jas. E. Benedict, 8. 

 Hon. Marshall McDonald, 8. 

 x\lcohol, storage of, 21. 

 A'coholic specimens, method of 



preserving, 56. 

 "Albatross," 3. 



Alcjonaria, comparison of forms 

 from deep and shallow water, 

 87. 

 near Havana, 85. 

 of Pourtales Plateau, 175. 

 Allopora miniacea Pourtales, 177. 

 AlpheUs, 52, 126, 160. 

 heterochelis, 161. 

 American flag, absence of in Ha- 

 vana harbor, 61. 

 American Shoal light, 139. 

 Amphiuma, 45. 

 Amphiura, 45, 170. 

 Anamathia crassa, 156, 161. 

 Anasimus latus, 156. 

 Anchonus, 96. 



Anchorage inside the reefs, 144. 

 •Andrews, Dr. L. \V., 186. 

 Andros Island, 46. 

 Andrenida;, 206. 

 Angel-fish, 120. 

 Anemones, 177. 

 Annelids, 127. 



Anomalot .ie furcillatus, 156. 

 Anomouran crabs, 158. 

 Anous stolidus, 40, 203. 

 Antenella gracilis, 88. 

 Antennarius, 28, 29, 121, 149. 

 Antlienoides, 166. 

 piercei, 169. 



