REPORT UPON FLORIDA REEFS. 487 



him upon the reefs of Florida was not pub- 

 lished in full at the time. The parts prac- 

 tically most important to the Coast Survey 

 were incorporated in their subsequent charts ; 

 the more general scientific results, as touch- 

 ing the physical history of the peninsula as 

 a whole, appeared in various forms, were em- 

 bodied in Agassiz's lectures, and were printed 

 some years after in his volume entitled " Meth- 

 ods of Study." The original report, with all 

 the plates prepared for it, was published in 

 the " Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology," under the supervision of Alexan- 

 der Agassiz, after the death of his father. It 

 forms a quarto volume, containing some sixty 

 pages of text, with twenty-two plates, illustra- 

 tive of corals and coral structure, and a map 

 of Southern Florida with its reefs and keys. 



This expedition was also of great impor- 

 tance to Agassiz's collections, and to the em- 

 bryo museum in Cambridge. It laid the 

 foundation of a very complete collection of 

 corals of all varieties and in all stages of 

 growth. All the specimens, from huge coral 

 heads and branching fans down to the most 

 minute single corals, were given up to him, 

 fche value of the whole being greatly en- 

 hanced by the drawings taken on the spot 

 from the living animals. 



