Note 2 — Chapter V · THEORY OF THE FORMATION OF THE DIFFERENT CLASSES OF CORAL-REEFS

See also Captain Owen’s and Lieutenant Wood’s papers in the Geographical Journal, on the Maldiva and Laccadive Archipelagoes. These officers particularly refer to the lowness of the islets; but I chiefly ground my assertion respecting these two groups, and the Chagos group, from information communicated to me by Captain Moresby.