THE ORIGIN OF CORAL.
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.
SYDNEY, October 6. (Received October 6, 1898, at 9.20 a.m.)
Professor David, lecturing on the Funafuti coral-boring expedition, said that the general evidence pointed to the probable subsidence in accordance with Darwin's theory. He also pointed to the concurrent peripheral outgrowth, which produced the saucer-like structure of the coral rocks. But it was premature as yet, he added, to draw conclusions as to the true mode of origin of the atolls.
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Evening Star, Issue 10747, 6 October 1898, Page 2
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78THE ORIGIN OF CORAL. Evening Star, Issue 10747, 6 October 1898, Page 2
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