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INDEX 



Boat-building in Cocos-Keeling, 38 



Booby bird, 300, 343 



Boring animals, effects of, on corals, 



126 

 Borneo, Ross's ship, 12 

 Bottles used to determine currents, 



293 

 Bourne, G. C, on currents, 232 

 Breccia, formation of, 254 

 in lagoon, 173 

 sites of formation of, IGl 

 Breccia platform, definition of, 154 

 evidences afforded by, 279 

 raising of, 282 

 Brehat, 53 



Bridegroom, costume of, 50 

 British Christmas Island Phosphate 



Co., 43 

 Broadening of reefs, 277 

 Buchanan, J. Y., on deep-water 



corals, 245 

 Bimtal (fish), 328, 347 

 Burial customs, 54 

 Burwng chinta {Zosterops natalis), 



299, 344 

 Burung glateh (Java spariovv), 



299, 344 

 Butterflies, species of, 349 

 Button Islands, 262 



Cable ships, soundings made by, 

 145 



Cable, submarine, 44 



Calapim hepatica, 318, 368 



Calm water, influence on coral 

 growth, 90 



Calms, in region of atolls, 209 



Capel, Admiral, visit of, 8 



Gardiosoma, 176, 178, 315, 368 



Garpophaga Whartoni, 43, 299, 338 



Cats, introduction of, 298 



Centipedes, 305, 367 



Ceremonies connected with mar- 

 riage, 50 



Ghallenger, voyage of, 227 



Chamisso on atolls, 232 



Changes in ideas regarding atolls, 

 214 



of lagoon shores, 198 



of ocean -level, 199 



periodic, in atoll-building, 169 

 Charts, early, 5 

 Chinese blood in natives, 21 

 Christmas Island, settlement of, 



41 

 Cilia of coral embryos, 64 

 Circumcision, rite of, 48 

 Climate of atoll, 201 

 Clouds over atolls, 204, 211 

 Cockroaches, 306, 364 

 Coconut, introduction of, 17 



uses of, 377 

 Coconut oil, 35 

 Gcenopsammia, 85 

 Goleoptera, species of, 357 

 Colonising routes for fauna, 288 

 Coloration of corals, 93, 96 



of fish, 327 

 Gomet, H.M.S., visit of, 16 

 Commerce as distributer of fauna, 



302 

 Conglomerate of beaches, 175 

 Corallites, form of, 76 



in rough-water types, 90 

 Corallum, alteration of, in repair, 



118 

 Coi^als, growth of, in lagoon, 190 



living, 57 

 Gorynetes rujipes, 306, 358 

 Crabs as producers of vegetable soil, 

 178, 269 



species of, 314, 367 

 Crescent shape of islets, 177 

 Crickets, 306, 365 

 Crocodiles, 295 

 Grtistacea, species of, 367 

 Currents, alteration of, 163 



as carriers of fauna and flora, 

 293 



in lagoon entrance, 198 

 Currents, oceanic, rate of, 295 

 Cyclone of 1862, 29 



