Danas Proof of Darwin's Theory of Coral Reefs

Abstract

JAMES DWIGHT DANA, born four years to a day after Darwin, on February 12, 1813, naturalist of the United States Exploring Expedition under Wilkes from 1838 to 1842, and afterwards until his death in 1895 professor of geology at Yale University, was for more than half a century a leading figure among American men of science. On the hundredth anniversary of his birth it is fitting to direct attention to the independent proof that he found many years ago for Darwin's theory of coral reefs, a proof that has long been overlooked, although it supplies the most important confirmation for the theory of subsidence that has ever been brought forward.