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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. [Coral reefs, 2d ed., p. 24]. CUL-DAR59.2.89r. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 11.2021. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volumes CUL-DAR 54-61 contain material for Darwin's book Insectivorous plants (1875).

Darwin, C. R. 1874. The structure and distribution of coral reefs. 2d ed. London: Smith Elder and Co.

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spaces which run in different directions have subsided by one common movement, or independently of each other, we do not know. In the case of the Caroline & Marshall archipelagos, which are situated nearer each other but extend in different directions, it seems probable that their subsidence has been independent; for the Mc'Askill islands, (*Dana. Corals & Coral Islands p. 306) lie towards the eastern end of the Caroline [few words excised] are formed of upraised

[Coral reefs, pp. 188-189]

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