Excerpt from Annual Report of the Curator of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, to the President and Fellows of Harvard College, for 1895-96 I am, however, satisfied that this visit to the Great Barrier Reef Of Australia, however unsuccessful it has been, will enable me to carry out future expeditions to the coral districts of the Pacific with far better ideas of the difficulties to be encountered and of the nature of the problems to be solved than if I had made my trip to Australia after an examination of the coral islands Of the Southern seas. As it would have been impossible for me to have carried on my own investigations regarding the Great Barrier Reef and to have made a collection Of the corals Of the region at the same time, I sent Professor H. A. Ward of Rochester to Australia, and he is at present on the Great Barrier Reef, making a collection of the corals Of the reef for the Museum. From what I hear, he has been favored with better weather, and has been most successful in gathering a representative collection of the corals of the northeast coast, mainly in Torres Straits. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.