Waite accompanied Charles Hedley of the Australian Museum on the 1896 Funafuti Coral Reef Boring Expedition of the Royal Society under Professor William Sollas and Professor Edgeworth David.
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Following the expedition to Funafuti in the Ellice Islands (now know as Tuvalu) Waite published an account of The mammals, reptiles, and fishes of Funafuti.
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In 1902, Edgar Ravenswood Waite proposed Hypnarce as a replacement name for Hypnos, which he believed was preoccupied by the butterfly genus Hypna.