390 



INDEX 



Pergdm, 43, 299, 338 

 Petition of Ross I., 23 

 Philippine land-rail, 312, 338 

 Phosphates, formation of, 210, 180 



in Christmas Island, 42 

 Physalia, 331 

 Piazza, Captain, 294 

 Pig-fish, 327, 347 

 Pigs, introduction of, 297 

 Plapen, Catherine, 8 

 Plate forms of coral growth, 80, 86 

 Pocillopora, colonies on floating log, 



100 

 Poisoning of lagoon corals, 192 

 Poisonous fish, 328 

 Porites colonies as miniature atolls, 

 247 

 manner of growth, 106 

 Portuguese man-o'-war, 331 

 Prevalent winds, 202 

 Problems involved in atoll-building, 



217 

 Pulu Atas, settlement of, 19 

 Pulu Bras, Hare's residence on, 19 

 Pulu Selma, settlement of, 19 

 Pumice, 170, 290 



Queensland bean, cast up on 



beaches, 296 

 Question of basis on which atolls ai^e 



built, 217 



Rabbits, introduction of, 297 

 Radiolarian ooze, 150 

 Raffles, Sir Stamford, 10 

 Rain from cloudless sky, 206 



influence on corals, 129 

 Rain-clouds, splitting of, 210 

 Rainfall, influence of, 180 



of atoll, 206 

 Raijed beaches, evidences of, 283 

 Rapid growth of corals, 196 

 Rate of growth of corals, 69 

 Rats, black, 305, 337 



damage done by^ 304 



description of, 335 



Rats, introduction oP, 303 



Raymond, Joseph, 22 



Reade, T. Mellard, 229 



Reefs, formation of, 245 



Religion of islanders, 45 



Reproduction of corals, 61 



Reptilia, species of, 345 



Resins, cast on beaches, 171 



" Reversed atolls," production of, 



271 

 Rhynchota, species of, 360 

 Robber crab, 316 

 Robert Portner, wreck of, 304 

 Rock cod, 329 

 Rocks cast on barrier, 284 

 producing sounds, 285 

 Rodriquez, cable route to, 148 

 Ross I., death of, 25 

 Ross II., death of, 31 

 Rough water, influence on corals, 



86 

 Rujak, 50 



Sambar, deer^ 297, 337 



fish, 322, 347 

 Sand flats, 186 



influence of, in lagoon, 188 



influence of, on land formation, 

 264 



islands, 181 



produced by fish, 164 

 Sand-banks, development of, 257 

 Sandstone, beach formation, 175 

 Scari as sand-producers, 164, 2()4 



habits of, 130 

 Scorpions, 305, 366 

 Sea-level, alterations of, 109 

 Sea-slugs as sand-producers, 165 

 Sediment, deposition in lagoon, 226, 

 228 



effects of, on corals, 123, 136 



effects of, on type of growth, 94 

 Sedimentation banks, 238 



in open ocean, 237 



influence on corals and reefs, 

 249 



