CONTENTS 



PAGE 



Preface vii 



Preface to Re-issue x 



Introduction xxi 



PART I. THE HISTORY OF THE ATOLL 



CHAP. 



I. The Discovery and Early History of the Islands 1 



II. The Origin of the Clunies-Ross Family 6 



III. 1825-1854 15 



IV. The History of the Atoll, 1854-1871 27 

 V, History of the Atoll from 1871 32 



VI. Native Customs 45 



PART II. THE CORALS AND THE CORAL 

 PROBLEM 



VII. The Early Stages of the Life-History of the 



Corals 57 



VIII. The Growth of the Coral Colony - 69 



IX. The Life-Processes of the Coral Colony 101 



X. The PiiocESSEs of Death in the Coral Colony 121 



PART III. THE ATOLL AND ITS 

 PROBLEMS 



XI. The Atoll as a Whole 135 



XII. The Submarine Bank on which the Atoll Rests 144 



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