Note 32 — Chapter VI · ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF CORAL-REEFS WITH REFERENCE TO THE THEORY OF THEIR FORMATION.
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On Florida and the north shores of the Gulf of Mexico, Rogers’ “Report to Brit. Assoc.” volume iii., page 14.—On the shores of Mexico, Humboldt, “Polit. Essay on New Spain,” volume i., page 62. (I have also some corroborative facts with respect to the shores of Mexico.)—Honduras and the Antilles, Lyell’s “Principles,” 5th edition, volume iv., page 22.—Santa Cruz and Barbadoes, Prof. Hovey, “Silliman’s Journal”, volume xxxv., page 74.—St. Domingo, Courrojolles, “Journ de Phys.” tom. liv., page 106.—Bahamas, “United Service Journal”, No. lxxi., pages 218 and 224. Jamaica, De la Beche, “Geol. Man.” page 142.—Cuba, Taylor in “Lond. and Edin. Mag.” volume xi., page 17. Dr. Daubeny also, at a meeting of the Geolog. Soc., orally described some very modern beds lying on the N.W. parts of Cuba. I might have added many other less important references.