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time and place I shall notice these, but ree are wholly cela > ere 
present question. I may be wrong or I may be right in my views, but 
this has nothing to do with the question whether I have borrowed certain 
other views from Mr. Dana. There are one or two 8 tesa however 
~-which must not be passed over in silence. On p. 133 Mr. D., speaking of 
my article on coral formations says, “ He states that through the coral ar- 
chipelago to the eastward of Tahiti, the surface temperature ranges from 
8°'to 81° st. Jour. p. is from 7 
as it appeared in the extra printed for my use, which came out at the 
close of December, 1841, in anticipation of the publication in ite Jour- 
nal. It was divided at the request of the publishing committee, in order 
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early and latter part of the article, had my orn returned by a sian 
whom it had been loaned, I found : on reference to ‘xpediti on observa- 
range was from 78° to 83°.t The only information not derived from my 
own observations, was that on the temperatures at Callao, Valparaiso, in 
— the ee tp Trinidad, C, Verde Is., Martin Vas and Fer- 
onha, which, as stated p. 382 of last volume of this psa) I 
Sired ss the ceauadix to King and Fitzroy’s voyage.t I might, if 
e 160 ism 
2 Sete ree ia variations, I will cit ‘Maes 6 rticle in Bost. Journ. Vol. 
V, p. 155, the following sentence. “At a fier day I may be enabled (abandon- 
Ing the indefinite Gecilivations whose occurrence : am Z awar ; too frequen 
n these remarks, but which under the circumstances are unavoidable,) a 
cally to arrange my observations, = ive se detail with the minuteness and pre 
cision demanded by the importance of the su 
I perceive that by a noversighti io the oa ve said, ‘from the same work an nd 
atthe same time were derived all the local tether diate of the Pacific, specified in 
m antic. at a have read, “all the local temperatures of places not ope 
n the isi 4 article,” 
implied by: the ates to p. 160 Bost, Journal, in foot-note, p. 382 last et Fb 
