INDEX, 



277 



SEM 



Semper, Prof., 



on the Pelew islands, 223 

 on the reef of the Philippine 

 archipelago, 236 

 Seniavine, 220 

 Serangani, 228 

 Seychelles, 242 

 Ship-bottom quickly coated with 



coral, 105 

 Smyth island, 206 

 Society archipelago, 1 63 



stationary condition of, 167 

 alleged proofs of recent eleva- 

 tion, 183 

 Society Archipelago, 199 

 Socotra, 250 

 Solor, 230 

 Sooloo islands, recently elevated, 



178 

 Sooloo islands, 234 

 Souvoroff, 205 

 Spallanzani 



on growth of coral, 106 

 Spanish, 223 

 Starbuck, 204 

 Stones transported in roots of trees, 



154 

 Storms, effects of on coral-islands, 



127 

 Stutchbury, Mr., 



on the growth of an Agaricia, 



106 

 on upraised corals in Society 

 archipelago, 183 

 Subsidence 



of Keeling atoll, 23 

 extreme slowness of, 156, 190 

 areas of, apparently elongated, 



188 

 areas of, immense, 187 

 great amount of, 190 

 Suez, gtdf of, 255 

 Sulphur islands, 225 

 Sumatra, recently elevated, 178 

 Sumatra, 232 

 Sumbawa, 230 

 Surf favourable to the growth of 



massive corals, 85 

 Swallow shoal, 239 

 Sydney island, 205 



VIT 



Tahiti, alleged proofs of its recent 

 elevation, 183 



Tahiti, 199 



Tanasserim, 234 



Temperature of the sea at the Gala- 

 pagos archipelago, 82 



Tenimber island, 226 



Teturoa, 200 



Theories on coral formations, 117, 

 125 



Theory of subsidence, and objec- 

 tions to, 124, 151 



Thickness, vertical, of barrier-reefs, 

 66, 132 



Thomas, St., 263 



Tikopia, 216 



Timor recently elevated, 177 



Tirn^or, 228 



Timor-laut, 226 



Tokan Bessees, 232 



Tongatabou, description of, 175 



Tongatabou, 209 



Tonquin, 240 



Toubai, 201 



Toufoa, 210 



Toupoua, 216 



Traditions of change in coral-islands, 

 126 



Tridacnse, 



embedded in coral-rock, 154 

 left exposed in the Low Archi- 

 pelago, 168 

 Tubularia, quick growth of, 1 06 



Tumbelan, 234 



Tumeffe reef, 262 

 Turtle, 211 



Ualan, 220 



Vanikoro, 



section of, 64 



its state and changes in its reefs, 

 167 

 Vanikoro, 216 

 reef, 217 

 Gorda, 263 

 Viti archipelago, 211 



