INDEX. 
343 
SOL 
Solution of dead coral, [286], 
[299], [301], [329] 
Sooloo islands, recently elevated, 
180 
Sooloo islands, 210 
Souvoroff, 207 
Spallanzani, 
on growth of coral, 106 
Spanish, 228 
Starbucic, 206 
Stones transported in roots of 
trees, 157 
Storms, effects of on coral-islands, 
129 
Stutchbury, Mr., 
on the growth of an Agari- 
cia, 106 
on upraised corals in Society 
archipelago, 185 
Subsidence 
of Keeling atoll, 23-25 
extreme slowness of, 193 
areas of, apparently elon- 
gated, 191 
areas of, immense, 190 
great amount of, 193 
indicated by shape of coast, 
[313] 
at Masamarhu island, [319] 
at Oahu, [322] 
Suez, gulf of, 266 
Sulphur islands, 230 
Sumatra, recently elevated, 180 
Sumatra, 238 
Sumbawa, 236 
Surf favourable to the growth of 
massive corals, 85 
Swallow shoal, 245 
Sydney island, 208 
Tahiti, alleged proofs of its re- 
cent elevation, 185, [314] 
Tahiti, 201 
Tanasserim, 239 
Tapamanoa, 202 
Temperature of the sea at the 
Galapagos archipelago, 82 
Tenimber island, 231 
Teturoa, 202 
VOL 
Theories on coral formations, 
119, 127, [286], [290], 
[298], [305] 
Theory of subsidence, and objec- 
tions to, 126, 153, [283], 
[325] 
Thickness, vertical, of barrier- 
reefs, 66, 135 
Thomas, St., 274 
Tikopia, 220 
Timor recently elevated, 180 
Timor, 234 
Timor-laut, 231 
Tokan-Bessees, 237 
Tongatabou, description of, 177 
Tongatabou, 213 
Tonquin, 246 
Toubai, 203 
Toufoa, 213 
Toupoua, 220 
Traditions of change in coral- 
islands, 129 
Tridacnte, 
embedded in coral-rock, 156 
left exposed in the Low 
archipelago, 170 
Tubularia, quick growth of, 106 
Tumbelan, 240 
Tumeffe reef, 272 
Turtle, 215 
Ualan, 225 
Vanikoro, 
section of, 65 
its state and changes in its 
reefs, 169 
Vanikoro, 220 
Vavao, 213 
Vine reef, 222 
Virgin Gorda, 274 
Viti archipelago, 214 
Volcanic 
islands, with living corals on 
their shores, 81 
matter, rarely associated 
with thick masses of coral- 
rock, 157 
