ORIGIN OF CORAL REEFS.
Sydney, March 30.
In May last the British Royal Society's expedition under Professor Sollas visited the Ellice Islands, chiefly with the object of testing the Darwinian theory as to the formation of coral reefs. The expedition failed owing to defective boring apparatus. Mr Gardiner, one of the members, remained to study coral formation. He has now returned to Sydney. The result of bis researches is on the whole unfavourable to Darwin's theory that the coral reefs have grown on sunken land. He sees no necessity to assume the sinking of the land. It seems more feasible that the reefs grouped themselves round submarine mountains, probably of volcanic origin, the tops of which were never above the sea.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 74, 31 March 1897, Page 5
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