282 =. F. Pourtalés—Corals at the Galapagos Islands. 
Atlantic border, if not along the southern shores of this island. 
Under these cireumstances the old life, which might early have 
repeopled the southern shores of Long Island and the seas on 
the east, would have been slow in repossessing itself of Long 
Island Sound. 
Leeann aed 
Art. XXXVIIL—Corals at the Galapagos Islands, by L. F. 
POoURTALES. 
THE Galapagos Islands are, as is well known, an important 
point in the geographical distribution of corals, being almost 
exactly on the boundary of the coral-producing part oo’ 
acific Ocean, and that portion which is destitute of them 0P 
account of the low temperature of the water. All the writers 
* Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. of New York, viii, 149, May, 1865. 
