270 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1892. 



unsigned, drawn up by a member of the Madras Society's Editorial 

 Committee. 



A. O. Hume. — The Laccadives and the West Coast, in Stray 

 Feathers, vol. iv., [1876]: an excellent account of the reefs and 

 islands visited by Mr. Hume. 



W. W. Hunter. — Article " Laccadives/' in Imp. Gazetteer of 

 India, ed. ii., vol. viii. [1886] : a somewhat inexact digest of pre- 

 vious notices based chiefly, however, on that by Mr. (afterwards 

 Sir William) Robinson. 



Administration Reports of the Marine Survey of India, 1887-8, 

 1888-9, 1889-90, 1890-1, 1891-2, Topographical and hydrographical 

 notices by Commander Carpenter, R. N., and Commander 

 Hoskyn, R. N., with biological notices by Surg. Alcock, 

 I.M.S. 



J. Shortt. — Monograph of the Cocoanut Palm [1888] : describes 

 (p. 16) the process of coir-manufacture in the Laccadives. 



G. "Watt. — Article " Cocos nucifera/' in Diet. Econ. Prod, of 

 India, vol, ii. [1889] : describes the Laccadive coco-nut and coir 



trade, 



D. Prain. — A list of Laccadive Plants, in Sc. Mem. by Medical 

 ■ Officers of the Army of India, part v. [1890] ; E. Roth, in Engler, 

 Bot. Jahrb., vol. xii. [1890] ; W. B. Hemsley, in Nature, 

 vol. xlii. [1890]. 



On studying a chart of the Archipelago we find that the atolls 

 are arranged in three lines, as if there were three chains of peaks ; 

 a western rather irregular chain, corresponding roughly to the meri- 

 dian of Lon. 72° E., containing from north to south the reefs or 

 islands of Cherbaniani, Cheriapani, Bitrapar, Pirmalpar, Akati, and 

 Suhelipar, with, at the extreme north, the sunken bank of Koradivh ; 

 a central, corresponding roughly to the meridian of Lon. 72° 45' E., 

 containing from north to south the islauds of Chitlac, Kiltan, 

 Kadamum, Ameni and Korati witli the Piti sandbank between the 

 two latter, and with, at the extreme north, the sunken Bassas de Pedro 

 bank ; and an eastern, corresponding to Lon. 78° 40' E., containing 

 the islands of Anderut and Kalpeni, with, to the north-east of these, 

 the sunken Elikalpeni bank : Minikoi, it will be seen, corresponds 

 as to position with the central chain of peaks. The parallel of 



