INDEX. 



271 



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Ceylon, 240 



Chagos, Great bank, description and 



theory of, 53, 147 

 Chagos group, 148 

 Chagos group, 241 

 Chama shells embedded in coral 



rock, 106 

 Chaniisso on corals preferring the 



surf, 85 

 Changes 



in the state of Keeling atoll, 



20 

 of atolls, 128, 168 

 Channels 



leading into the lagoons, 59 

 of atolls, 39, 146 



the Maldiva atolls, 43, 

 49 

 through barrier-reefs, 133 

 Chase, 213 

 China sea, 238 

 Christmas atoll, 100 

 Christmas atoll, 206 

 Christmas island (Indian ocean), 240 

 Clarence, 205 

 Clarke, W. B., on recent elevation of 



the Loyalty islands, 176 

 Clvpperton rock, 197 

 Cocos, or Keeling atoll, 7 

 Cocos (or Keeling), 240 

 Cocos island (Pacific), 197 

 Cochin China, 240 

 Coetivi, 243 

 Comoro group, 244 

 Composition of coral formations, 153 

 Conglomerate 



coral rock on Keeling atoll, 17 



on other atolls, 35 

 coral rock, 153 

 Cook islands, recently elevated, 175 

 Cook islands, 202 

 Coral-rocks bored by vermiform 



animals, 19, 154 

 Coral-reefs, 



their distribution and absence 



from certain areas, 80 

 destroyed by loose sediment, 87 

 Coral-rock, 



at Keeling atoll, 16 

 Mauritius, 74 



DAN 



Coral-rock, 



at Metia, 98 

 organic remains of, 154 

 Corals, 



dead but upright in Keeling 



lagoon, 21 

 depths at which they live, 113 



off Keeling atoll, 11 

 killed by a short exposure, 8 

 living in the lagoon of Keeling 



atoll, 18 

 quick growth of, in Keeling 



lagoon, 17 

 merely coating the bottom of 



the sea, 78 

 standing exposed in the Low 

 archipelago, 168 

 Corallian sea, 164 

 Corallian sea, 217 

 Cornwallis, 214 

 Cosmoledo, 244 

 Couth ouy, Mr. 



alleged proofs of recent eleva- 

 tion of the Low archipelago, 

 168 

 on external ledges round coral 

 islands, 138 

 Crescent -formed reefs, 143 

 Cuba, 259 



Cuming, Mr., on the recent elevation 

 of the Phillippines, 178 



Dana, Prof., on the reef of Hawaii, 

 82, 173 

 distribution of coral-reefs as 

 affected by the temperature 

 of the sea, 84 

 upraised coral -rock of Metia, 98 

 boring through coral-rock, 98 

 depth at which corals live, 111 

 subsidence of the Mendina is- 

 land, 163, 201 

 subsidence in the Caroline 



archipelago, 167 

 slight recent subsidence of the 



Paumotu archipelago, 168 

 extension of the Hawaii archi- 

 pelago, 189, 208 

 Peejee islands, 211 

 Dangerous or Low archipelago, 198 



