Records Relating to 1897-1898 Funafuti Coral Boring Expeditions [Tannatt William Edgeworth (TWE) David] (Series 1454)

This series contains material relating to the coral boring work carried out at Funafuti. Most of the correspondence consists of drafts of letters written by TWE David to the Royal Society of London, the Royal Geographical Society, the New South Wales Government, and the Commander-in-Chief, Australia Station.

There is a manuscript entitled "Geological Relation of the Ellice Group to the Fiji Group" and two untitled manuscripts - one report on the second expedition and one report on the third expedition. David's account of the second and third expeditions to Funafuti in 1897-1898 was published by the Royal Society of London in 1904 in a volume titled "The Atoll of Funafuti. Borings into a Coral Reef and the Results".

Funafuti is an island in the Pacific Ocean at 8 degrees 30 minutes south latitude and 179 degrees 13 minutes east longitude, now in Tuvalu and formerly part of Britain's colony, Gilbert and Ellice Islands.

This series also contains some archival estrays, consisting of loose diary entries, accounts of boring, reports on dredging, the geology of the atoll, and some miscellaneous notes.