298 ~ REPORT—1904. 
The Committee have to report with deep regret the death of Mr. 
Robert McLachlan, a colleague who followed the work with the keenest 
interest. 
The Committee desire to be reappointed, with the addition of the 
name of the Hon. Walter Rothschild, who has kindly consented to 
serve, and urgently press for a further grant of 100/., so that more 
rapid progress may be possible. 
The Zoology of the Sandwich Islands.—Fourteenth Report of the 
Committee, consisting of Professor NEwTon (Chairman), Mr. Davip 
SmarP (Secretary), Dr. W.'T. BLanrorp, Professor 8. J. Hickson, 
Dr. P. L. Scuater, Dr. F. Du Cane Gopman, and Mr. Epagar 
A. SMITH. 
Tue Committee was appointed in 1890 and has since been annually 
reappointed. 
Since the last report, Vol. III., Pt. 4, of the ‘ Fauna Hawaiiensis’ has 
been published by the Committee, and also the part dealing with Verte- 
brata, by Mr. Perkins, mentioned in the last report. 
The Microlepidoptera have been studied by Lord Walsingham, 
and it is expected that his report on them will shortly be completed. 
Some further progress has been made with the examination of the 
Coleoptera, but the working out of this Order of Insects still remains 
a difficulty. 
The Committee asks for reappointment without a grant. 
Coral Reefs of the Indian Region.—Fifth Report of the Committee, 
consisting of Mr. A. Sep@wick (Chairman), Mr. J. STanLey 
GARDINER (Secretary), Professor J. W. Jupp, Mr. J. J. Lister, 
Mr. Francis Darwin, Dr. S. F. Harmer, and Professors A. 
Macatister, W. A. HerpMan, and 8. J. Hickson. 
THE Committee have received the following report from Mr. Stanley 
Gardiner, who has had charge of the work : — 
During the year two parts of ‘The Fauna and Geography of the Maldive 
and Laccadive Archipelagoes’ have been published, viz. Parts II. and IIT. 
of Vol. II. They contain reports by Mr. Edgar Smith, on the Marine 
Mollusca; Mr. R. C. Punnett, on the Enteropneusta; Mr. L. A. 
Borradaile, on various Crustacea; the Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing on the 
Isopoda ; Mr. E. T. Browne, on the Hydromeduse ; Mr. Forster-Cooper, 
on the Antipatharia; Mr. R I. Pocock, on the Arachnida; and by 
Mr. Stanley Gardiner, on the Variation of the Madreporaria and the 
Astraeide. 
Part IV., completing Vol. IT., is in hand, and will contain among others, 
papers by Professor 8. J. Hickson, on the Gorgonians and Pennatulids ; 
“Professor Coutiére (of Paris), on the Alphaeidz (about seventy species) ; 
Surgeon-Major Alcock, on the Paguride ; Mr. L. A. Borradaile, on the 
Hydroids ; Mr. A. O. Walker, on the Amphipoda; Mr, A. E. Shipley, 
