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INDEX. 



Tubipora fimbriata. 84. 



" syringa, 84. 

 Tubuai, 304, 337. 

 Tubularia, 103. 



Tuomey, M., on Florida reefs, 204. 

 Tutuila, 305, 326. 

 Tyerman on Huabine, 335. 

 on Rurutu, 336. 



Ualan, 306, 331, 

 Umbellularidae, 93. 

 Upolu, 305, 326. 



" tbickness of reef, 158. 



" barbor of, at Apia, 241 ; at Fa] if a 

 244. 

 Urticina crassicornis, lasso-cells, 34, 36. 



Vanikobo Group, 307. 



Vavau, 305, 337. 



Veretillum Stimpsoni, 91,92. 



" cynomorium, pbospborescence 



of, 92. 



Verrill, A. E., on Cancrisocia expansa, 24 ; 

 on Epiactis prolif era, 40 ; on 

 coral secretion, 43 ; classifi- 

 cation of Actinoid corals, 

 61 ; compartments in Alcy- 

 onia all ambulacral, 81 

 Anthelia and Telesto, 84 

 spicules of Gorgonise, 86 

 on a species of Veretillum 

 and Copbobelemnon, 91 ; on 

 corals of Panama, 111 ; co- 

 rals of La Paz, 112 ; corals 

 of tbe West Indies, 113; 

 corals of tbe Brazilian 

 coast, 113 ; corals of tbe 

 Bermudas, 114 ; Wbipple's 

 observations on corals of a 

 wreck, 125 ; accepted names 

 for species in Dana's Zoo- 

 phytes, 379 -84. 



Vincennes Island, 179, 202. 



Virgularidae, 93. 



Volcanic action, effect of, in limiting tbe 

 distribution of corals, 301, 310, 320. 

 Vorticellse, nature of, 374. 

 Vulcano, 309. 



Waihu, 303. 

 Wallis's Island, 306, 342. 

 Washington Island, 173, 197, 338. 

 Wateoo or Atiu, 336. 

 Water on coral islands, 283. 

 Waterlandt, 203. 

 Waves, action of on coasts, 231. 

 " force of, Stevenson, 225. 

 West Indies, corals of, 112. 

 Weinland, D. F., rate of growth of corals 



124. 

 Whippey Harbor, 246. 

 Whipple, J. A., corals from a wreck, 126. 

 " " coral heads of Turk's 



Island, 139. 

 Whitsunday Island, 172. 

 Williams's Missionary Enterprises, 305. 

 " rock and caverns of Atiu, 194, 



■ 361. 

 " on Mangaia, Atiu, and Ruru- 



tu, 336. 

 Williams, S. W., on biche-de-mar, 161. 

 Wilson's Island, 203. 

 Winds about coral islands, 298, 



" effects of, 235 

 Wolcbonsky, 169. 



Xenia Dan^e, 82. 

 " elongata, 82. 

 " fiorida, '82. 



Yap or Eap, £07. 



ZOANTHACEA, 61. 



Zoanthus Americana, 62. 



Zoophyte, 48. 



Zoophytes, names now used for species in 



Dana's Report on, Verrill, 379. 

 ZoLthome, 48, 60. 



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