RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1837.05.31]. Series of specimens showing the composition of the circular coral-reef. NHM-MSS-DARA.3. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed and edited by John van Wyhe 11.2022. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. With thanks to Judith Magee for providing the image. Reproduced by permission of the Trustees of the Natural History Museum (London) and William Huxley Darwin. Thanks to Brian Rosen who explained that the note and specimens were prepared "perhaps to accompany his presentation of his subsidence theory of coral reef formation in a paper read to the Geological Society of London on May 31, 1837. The NHM acquired the specimens not long afterwards in December 1842, and subsequently placed them on display in the former Coral Gallery, from which they were removed to collection storage in the 1970s." Reef encounter no. 38 (January 2010).
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Series of specimens showing the composition of the circular coral-reef, which forms Keeling Atoll or lagoon-island in the Indian Ocean; collected by Charles Darwin Esq. during the voyage of H.M.S Beagle.—
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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