204 A, E. Verrill—The Bermuda Islands; Coral Reefs. 
Also issued separately, with new title-page and special pagination [i-x ; 1-548], 
and 8 additional cuts, as author’s edition. Bound in cloth and in card-board. 
Includes Bibliography, pp. 849-864. 
Verrill, Addison £.—Variations and Nomenclature of Bermudian, West Indian, 
and Brazilian Reef Corals, with Notes on various Indo-Pacific Corals (105 pp., 
plates x-xxxv; 8 cuts in text), 1901. Discussion of Bermuda fossil coral 
on pp. 68, 81, notes. In note on p. 68, for Vaughan, read Gregory. 
Wallace, Alfred Russell.—Island Life, London edition, 1880, pp. 253-264. New 
York edition, pp. 249-260. 
Contains a brief account of the geology of Bermuda. 
Von Martens, E.—Sitzungsber. Ges. Nat. Freunde, Berlin, 1889, p. 201. Records 
fossil P. Nelsoni, from collection of Beyrich. 
Parr V.—CHARACTERISTIC LIFE OF THE BERMUDA CorRAL REEFs. 
The geological structure of islands surrounded by coral reefs is so 
largely dependent on the animals and plants occupying the reefs 
that a brief review of the principal forms of life seems to be highly 
desirable. The general character of the growths upon many of the 
Bermuda reefs was given by Mr. Agassiz in his valuable memoir,* but 
he usually mentioned only a few of the genera'and families of the 
larger corals, gorgoniz, etc., that he noticed, and without figures. 
My present purpose is, therefore, to give a more specific and detailed 
account of the principal living forms, with figures of many of them, 
so that students, with few other books, and also amateurs, when 
visiting the reefs, may be able to recognize many of the species, 
without much difficulty. 
The outer reefs cannot be safely visited except in pleasant weather, 
with little or no wind, on account of the heavy surf that frequently 
covers them. But there are interesting and productive coral reefs in 
Castle Harbor which can be studied, even in somewhat windy 
weather, especially if the wind be from the west or northwest. 
Others, in and near Great Sound, Bailey Bay, etc., can be visited 
when the wind is southerly or off shore. The outer reefs are, how- 
ever, of greater interest, because the corals and other groups grow 
upon them much more luxuriant!y than elsewhere. Those off the 
south shore and the extensive areas off the western end of the islands 
have been least studied, owing to the almost continuous surf. 
The reefs or “flats” near the North Rocks (see figs. 23, 24) are 
among the best localities for studying the life of the outer reefs, for 
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* A. Agassiz, Visit to the Bermudas, March, 1894. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 
xxvi, pp. 209-281, 29 plates. 
