INDEX. 



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Dana's Report on Zoophytes, names of 

 species of, 375. 

 " " size of edition of, 03. 



Darwin on depth of reef corals, 116. 

 " rate of growth of corals, 123. 

 " origin of coral mud, 228. 

 " thickness of reefs, 157. 



on soundings, 173. 

 " on the Maldives, 186, 189. 

 " on the Great Chagos Bank, 192. 

 " on the Gambier Islands, 265. 

 " on the Maldives, 270. 

 " geographical distribution of coral 



reefs, 302. 

 " on consolidation of coral sands, 

 and change of position with the 

 Beasons, 355. 

 Dead-men's fingers, 83. 

 Dean's Island, 169, 203, 333. 

 Depth of reef-corals, 114. 

 Dendrophyllia arborea, 75. 

 " cornigera, 75. 



" nigrescens, 51, 75. 



Depeyster Island, 171, 342. 

 Diego Garcia, 172. 

 Diploria cerebriformis, 65. 

 Disappointment Islands, 172. 

 Dissepiments, 60. 

 Distribution of corals, 108, 114. 

 Dolomite, formation of, 356. 

 Dolomitic nature of coral rock of Matea, 



357. 

 Dorippe facchino, 24. 

 Drift sand-rock, 184. 

 Drummond's Island, 343. 

 Ducie's Island, 335. 

 Duke of Clarence's Islands, 169, 338. 

 Duke of York's Island, 199, 338. 

 Duff's Islands, 308. 



Eap, 307. 



Easter Island, 303. 



Echinoderms, characters of, 371. 



Echinopora reflexa, 43. 



Echthorsea, 35. 



Edwards & Haime, Phyllangia Americana, 



69. 

 Edwardsia callimorpha, 25, 41. 

 Egmont Island, 172. 

 Elevations in the Pacific, 332. 

 Elizabeth Island, an elevated coral island, 



334. 



Ellice's Island, 346. 



Enderbury's Island, 182, 186, 197, 291, 



341. 

 Endotheca, 60. 

 Eoa, 305, 337. 

 Epiactis prolifera, 40. 

 Epitheca, 60. 

 Eugorgia aurantiaca, 87. 

 Eunicella, 87. 

 Eupagurus pubescens, 62. 

 Evans, Lieut., consolidation of coral sands 



of Ascension Island, 355. 

 Exotheca, 60. 



Fanning Group, 338, 339. 

 Fakaafo, 168, 169, 196, 271. 

 Favosites, 104. 



" relation to Alveopora, 76, 77. 



Feejees, corals of, 110. 



" delta of Rewa, 244. 



" reefs of, 257, 264, 327. 



" elevations among, 342. 

 Feis, 345. 



Fission, fissiparity, 56. 

 Fissures in reef-rock, 177. 

 Fitzroy, Capt., soundings by, 172. 



" temperature about the Gal- 



apagos, 300. 

 Flint's Island, 340. 

 Florida Reefs, soundings, etc., 173, 204, 



211. 

 Florida Region, subsidences in, 368. 

 Flustra, 105. 



Foraminifers of reefs, 152, 377. 

 Forchammer, magnesia in some corals, 



99. 

 Four Crowns, 197. 

 Fungacea or Fungia tribe, 66. 



" distribution of, 109. 



Fungia echinata, 45. 



" lacera, 45, 46. 



" Danae, 66. 



Galapagos, temperature about, Fitzroy, 



300. 

 Gambier group, 157, 265, 304, 329. 

 Gardner's Island, 341. 

 Gemmipora, 75. 

 Geographical distribution of coral reefs, 



299. 

 Geological time, subdivisions of, 373. 



