No. XV.—THE MADREPORARIAN CORALS: I. THE FAMILY FUNGIIDA, 
WITH A REVISION OF ITS GENERA AND SPECIES AND AN 
ACCOUNT OF THEIR GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION. 
By J. Svanuey Garpiner, I.A., YB.S., PL.S., Fellow of Gonville and Caius College 
and Demonstrator of Animal Morphology in the University of Cambridge. 
(Plates 33-39.) 
Read 7th May, 1908. 
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I. INTRODUCTION. 
THe identification of the specimens of this family obtained by the Expedition was so 
difficult that I had to embark upon an extended re-examination of all its genera and 
species. For this purpose I had before me the collections which I had obtained on 
my previous expeditions to the Pacific Ocean and to the Maldive and Laccadive Archi- 
pelagoes. The late Mr. F. P. Bedford had also collected for me a few specimens at 
Singapore, and Mr. C. Crossland a few at Zanzibar. I am further indebted to 
Mr. Crossland for a large collection from reefs between Donganab and Sawakin, Red 
Sea; systematists will readily understand the peculiar value of this collection for 
identifying the species and genera described by earlier workers. I have also been 
enabled, owing to the kindness of Prof. Jeffrey Bell, to examine many of the Fungia, 
including all named specimens, and all of the colonial Fungiide in the British Museum. 
Mr. T. Wayland Vaughan, our chief authority on living and fossil Madreporaria, has 
also given me information and his opinions on certain points. I wished particularly to 
examine specimens of the form called Diaseris mortoni by Tenison-Woods. As the 
rules of the Australian Museum and of the University of Sydney do not allow any 
specimens to be sent out of the country under any circumstances, I would recommend 
workers on this very difficult group for their own peace of mind to absolutely neglect 
all identifications of corals in either institution, which are not accompanied by proper, 
preferably photographic figures. 
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