CONCLUDING REMARKS. 



THE Collections gathered at Funafuti by Mr. Charles Hedley, 

 on which the observations contained in the present volume are 

 principally based, were supplemented by other gatherings made 

 during the Second Expedition to that Atoll by Prof. T. W. E. 

 David, B.A., and Mr. G. Sweet, of Melbourne, and whilst the 

 Third Expedition was in progress by Messrs. A. E. Finckh and 

 G. H. Halligan. 



A selection of the specimens obtained by Prof. David and 

 Messrs. Finckh and Halligan was presented to the Trustees by 

 the Local Funafuti Committee of the Royal Society of London ; 

 Mr. Sweet very kindly lent his Mollusca for investigation, and 

 presented duplicates of the otherwise unrepresented species to the 

 Trustees; whilst, chiefly owing to Mr. Halligan's exertions, we are 

 indebted for a knowledge of those forms of Molluscan life occurring 

 in the Pteropod Ooze of Funafuti. 



The larger portion of the descriptive work, fell, by far, to the 

 lot of Messrs. C. Hedley and T. Whitelegge, the former con- 

 tributing the General Account of the Atoll, the Ethnology and 

 the Mollusca, whilst Mr. Whitelegge is responsible for the articles 

 on the Crustacea, Echinodermata, Alcyonaria, Spongida, Madre- 

 poraria, Hydrozoa, Scyphozoa, and Venues. 



Mr. J. P. Hill has laid the Australian Museum under obligations 

 by the readiness with which he collaborated with Mr. Whitelegge 

 in working out the Actinozoa, and on his own account investigated 

 the Enteropneusta. 



Mr. W. J. Rainbow described the Insect and Arachnian 

 Faunas ; Mr. E. R. Waite the Mammals, Reptilia, and Pisces ; 

 whilst the few facts that could be gleaned respecting the Aves 

 and Rocks, were recorded by Mr. A. J. North and Dr. T, 

 Cooksey respectively. 



