28-i KEPORT— 1902. 



Coral Reefs of the Indian Region. — 'Third Report of the Committee, 

 consisting of Mr. A. Sedg^vick {Chairman), Professor J. Graham 

 Kerr (Secretary), Professor J. W. Judd, Mr. J. J. Lister, Mr. 

 Francis Darwin, Dr. S. F. Harmer, and Professors A. Macalister, 

 W. A. Hebdman, and 8. J. Hickson, appointed to investigate the 

 Structure, Formation, and Groivth of the Coral Reefs of the Indian 

 Region. 



The Committee liave received the following report from Mr. J. Stanley 

 Gardiner : — 



During the greater part of the year I have been engaged in working 

 up the Coral Formations of the Maldive and Laccadive Archipelagoes. 

 Most of the collections of animals also have now been sent out to various 

 specialists, and are awaiting identification. 



The results of the expedition are being published in a series of demy 

 quarto parts by the Cambridge University Press, under the title of ' The 

 Fauna and Geography of the Maldive and Laccadive Archipelagoes.' 



Parts 1 and 2 of Volume I. have been issued, and contain a short 

 account of the expedition, and Chapters I.-VII. of my Report on the 

 Coral Formations, besides the following special reports : ' Hymenoptera,' 

 by P. Cameron ; ' Land Crustaceans,' by L. A. Borradaile ; ' Nemerteans,' 

 by R. C. Punnett ; ' Amphibia and Reptilia,' by F. F. Laidlavv ; ' Lepi- 

 doptera,' by Ed. Meyrick ; ' Echiuroidea,' by A. E. Shipley; 'Sipuncu- 

 loidea,' by A. E. Shipley ; ' Land and Freshwater MoUusca,' by Edgar 

 A. Smith ; ' Pigments of Corals,' by C. A. MacMunn ; ' Crustaceans 

 (Varieties and Portunidae) ' by L. A. Borradaile ; ' Chaetognatha,' by 

 L. Doncaster, and ' Dragon Flies,' by F. F. Laidlaw. 



Pceports have also been received on the Actinogonidiate Echinoderms, 

 the Dredged and Freshwater Fish, Orthoptera, Crustaceans (Xanthidae), 

 Turbellaria, Earthworms, Birds, Cephalochorda, and Nudibranchiata, and 

 will shortly be published. 



' The Botany of the Maldive Islands ' has been exhaustively dealt with 

 by Mr. J. C. Willis and myself in the ' Annals of the Royal Botanic 

 Gardens, Peredeniya,' vol. i., part 2. 



The Committee desire reappointment. 



The Zoology of the Sandwich Islands. — Tioelfth Report of the Committee, 

 consisting of Professor A. Newton (Chairman), Mr. Da\'id Sharp 

 (Secretary), Dr. W. T. Blanford, Professor S. J. Hickson, Dr. P. 

 L. ScLATER, Dr. F. Du Cane Godman, and Mr. Edgar A. Smith. 



This Committee was appointed in 1890, and has been since annually 

 reappointed. Last year a grant from the Association was asked for by 

 the Committee, but was not accorded. The Committee were consequently 

 for a time without the funds necessary to enable them to retain the ser- 

 vices of Mr. Perkins, on whom they relied to complete the working out 

 of the e.xtensive collections. 



Last June the Committee i-eceived for its work a grant of 200?, 



