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The Darwinian Theory of Atolls

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IN the review of “Letters and Recollections of Alexander Agassiz” (NATURE, January 29)—an article in which we are given a picture of an exceptionally interesting personality drawn by an intimate friend—there is a brief paragraph on the formation of coral reefs to which I should wish to refer.

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POULTON, E. The Darwinian Theory of Atolls. Nature 92, 712–713 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/092712a0

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