INDEX 



387 



Cyclone of 1876, 35 

 Cyclones, 205 



Dana on " Subsidence," 234 

 Darkness, corals active during, 



241 

 Darwin on atoll formation, 216 

 on fauna, 287 

 visit of, 20, 137 

 Dead corals in lagoon, 193 

 Death, ceremonies connected with, 



54 

 Death-processes in corals, 121 

 Deep water, influence on corals, 



92 

 Deep-water corals, pigmentation of, 



97 

 Deer, introduction of, 297, 337 

 Deformities, superstition regarding^ 



46 

 Demiegretta sacra, 313, 342 

 Dermestes felinus, 306, 358 

 Desertion of Hare's followers, 18 

 Destruction of corals in lagoon, 122, 



192 

 Devil-fish, 323 

 Dew, absence of, 211 

 Dicerohatis eregoodoo, 323, 347 

 Dicotyledons, species of, 371 

 Diptera, species of, 356 

 Discovery of the islands, 3 

 Distribution of corals, 68 



in the atoll, 157 

 Doldrums, 201 

 Domestic fowls, feral, 300 

 Dominant apical zooid, 82 

 Dragonflies, 205, 307, 363 

 Dredging corals, 191 

 " Drowned atolls," 230 

 Duerden, J. E., on coral embryos, 

 63, 67 

 on nocturnal habits of corals, 

 241 

 Dutch navigators, visits of, 24 

 Dymoke, Elizabeth, 13 

 Dymoke Shoal, 195 



Earth, curried on tree-trunks, 290 

 disappearance of, on coral 

 debris, 180 

 Earthworms, 179, 369 

 Eels, 329 

 Egeria, H.M.S., visit to Christmas 



Island, 42 

 Embryos of corals, 63 

 Environment, changes of, 116 



influence of, on corals, 79, 84 

 Espoir, H.M.S., visit of, 37, 40 

 Evil spirits as a cavise of infantile 



death, 47 

 Experiments on change of environ- 

 ment, 123 

 Exposure of corals above tide-level, 

 127 



Fallacies of Gardiner's theories, 

 224 



of Murray's theory, 226 

 Fauna of the atoll, 286, 335 

 Feasts, ceremonial, 53 

 Feeding of corals, 241 

 Fiddler crabs, 176, 315 

 Fish eating coral, 130 



of the atoll, 319 



species of, 347 

 Fish-shooting on the barrier, 325 

 Fitzroy, Admiral, soundings by, 145 

 Fixation of coral larvae, 68 

 Flat-topped Porites colonies, 247 

 Flies, species of, 356 

 Flinders on atoll formation, 213 

 Floating corals, 171, 291 



islands, 288 

 Flora, list of, 371 



of the group, 286 

 Forbes, Dr. H. O., on fauna, 287 



on lagoon, 192 



visit of, 36, 137 

 Foul water, influence on corals, 122 

 Fremantle, Captain, visit of, 28 

 Fresh water, presence of, 183 

 Freshening of salt water, 129 

 Frigate birds, 300, 342 



