4 BULLETIN : MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 
Montreal to Vancouver, and for despatching to Fiji a number of cases 
which could not be shipped via Australia. I am also under great obli- 
gations to Admiral Sir W. J. L. Wharton, R. N., and to Captain W. U. 
Moore, R. N., for their unceasing interest and advice while planning my 
trip to Fiji. 
Thanks to the admirable charts of Fiji, which owe their origin to the 
surveys of the United States Exploring Expedition under Wilkes, and 
their elaboration in great detail by the subsequent British surveys of 
Captain Denham and Lieutenants Moore and Richards, it was possible 
to cover a great deal of ground by picking out from the charts the inter- 
esting and critical points for examination, and thus to make a very rapid 
yet fairly accurate survey of the coral reefs. The accuracy of the Ad- 
miralty Charts enabled us to enter safely into the lagoons, and to select 
our anchorages with confidence. The reproduction here of the Fiji 
charts, together with photographs of the most characteristic views, will 
better serve to give a faithful picture of the islands and reefs of Fiji 
than lengthy descriptions, and I hope in the discussion of the general 
_ questions to be able to illustrate my arguments either by references to 
the charts or to the photographs of a group of islands of which Dana 
says, “The facts from the Feejee Archipelago illustrate the subject 
well.”! The larger scale charts of the Admiralty, such as those of 
Kandavu (A. C. 167), of the south and east coasts of Viti Levu (A. C. 
167, 845, 905), of Vatu ira Channel (A. C. 379), of Makongai and 
Wakaya (A. C. 1250), of Suva (A. C. 1757), of Levuka Harbor (A. C. 
1244), of Ovalau (A. C. 1249), of such islands as Nairai (A. C. 741), of 
Moala (A. C. 1252), of Ngau (A. C. 1251), and of Totoya (A. C. 1248), 
contain an inexhaustible fund of information regarding coral reefs, and 
would serve as an invaluable basis for a minute zodlogical and geological 
survey of any island group such as I attempted for the Tortugas.? 
1 Dana, Corals and Coral Islands, p. 262. 
2 Mem. Am. Acad., Vol. XI. p. 107 (1883). 
CamBripGE, September 1, 1898. 
Nore. — Owing to my absence from Cambridge and to the delay in 
preparing the Plates for this volume its publication has been delayed 
until May, 1899. 
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