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Show Darwin Still "in the Ring." Sir Ray Lankester in a recent review of the "Letters and Recollections of Alexander Agassiz" remarks incidentally inciden-tally that Agassiz succeeded in showing show-ing that the views advocated by Darwin Dar-win and Dana regarding' the formation of coral reefs were not of general validity. va-lidity. Apropos of this E. B. Poulton of Oxford calls attention to the test-boring test-boring of a coral reef made at Funi-futl. Funi-futl. It is the only important trial ever made of the Darwin theory ot atolls, and certainly tends to support the latter so far as the Pacific area ie concerned. The bore hole wr.s 1.10C feet deep and in the core removpd only shallow-water organisms were found. "For some reason or other,'' writes Professor Poulton, "probably because it is more exciting to over turn than to confirm, very little has Jeen said about this evidence." |