SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 



Coral Reefs in General 



Yonge, C. M. 1930. A Jear on the Qreat Barrier Heef. London & 

 New York. Putnam. 



Non-technical but authoritative. Deals with the Great Bar- 

 rier Reef Expedition. 

 Roughley, T. C 1947. Wonders of the Qreat Barrier Keef. New 

 York. Charles Scribner's Sons. 



Non-technical and very well illustrated. 



Formation of Coral Reefs. 



Davis, W. M. 1928. Jbe Coral Heef Vrohlem. American Geographic 

 Society Special Publication No. 9. 



The most complete account available of the origin of coral 

 reefs. 

 Schuchert, Charles 1935. yixsiorical Qeohgy of the Antillean- 

 Carihhean Hegion. New York. John Wiley & Sons. 

 Deals with the geology of the Caribbean reefs. 

 Vaughan T. W. 1919. 7ossil Corals from Central America, Cuba 

 and Porto Jlico with an account of the American 7ertiary Pleis- 

 tocene and Tlecent Heefs. U. S. National Museum. Bulletin 103. 

 Gives a detailed account of the West Indian Reefs. 



Structure and Habits of the Coral. 

 Yonge, C. M. 1930. See above. 



Vaughan, T. W. 1916. Results of Investigations of the Ecology of 

 the 7loridian and Bahamian Shoal-water Corals. National Acad- 

 emy Science Proc, 2, 95-100. 



A useful summary of Dr. Vaughan's publications on this 

 subject. Other papers are to be found in the Year Books 

 9-14 of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. 

 Vaughan, T. W. and J. W. Wells. 1943. Revision of the Sclerac- 

 tinia. Geological Society of America. Special Papers. No. 44. 

 This summarises present day knowledge of structure and 

 ecology and is the most up to date taxonomic revision. A 

 classified bibliography is included. A valuable handbook for 

 the student of corals. 



Associates of the Living Coral. 



Bartsch, P. 1937. An Ecological Cross-section of the lower part of 



Florida. Report of the Committee on Paleoecology. National 



Research Council, Washington, D. C. 

 Roughley, T. C. 1 947. See above. 



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