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nature by Dana himself, so that it is not strange that “some of 
them are very correct representations of nature.” When the 
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siderable number of rectifications also appear in this list for th 
first. ti 
ity for 
they would serve no useful purpose. Such was the case 
eol, Soc., xxiv, p- 30), 
region, and shuts in the coral-life of the Carribbean on the south ;” 
paper, notwithstanding the careless way 1 which he misquotes 
as to place of publication,+ and misrepresents as to the contents, a 
brief article upon the same subject by the writer, who still looks 
in vain for such evidence as would be afforded by elevated coral 
F * Transactions of the Connecticut Academy, vol. i, p. 351, 1868; and this 
ournal, vol. xlv, p. 415, 1868. 
paper as published in the Proceedings of the 
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Essex Institute, but it was published in the Proceedings of the Boston Society of 
atural History, vol, x, p. 323.—a. E. V. 
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