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I HAVE been greatly interested in Mr. John Murray's paper on coral reefs and islands published in NATURE, vol. xxii, p. 351. I hope you will allow me space to draw scientific attention to the fact that as early as 1857 I published a paper on the Formation of the Peninsula and Keys of Florida (Am. Jour. vol. xxiii. p. 46), in which I maintain that the theory of Darwin, although so beautifully (as I thought) explaining the phenomena of the Pacific reefs, wholly fails to explain those of the Florida coast.
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LECONTE, J. Coral Reefs and Islands. Nature 22, 558–559 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/022558b0
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