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...Geological Conference. "Dana's Confirmation of Darwin's Theory of Coral Reefs," by Professor W. M. Davis, in the Geological Lecture Room...
...other collections which he amassed during these explorations. This researches take us a long way toward the solution of exceedingly interesting and important oceanic problems, and his work on coral-reefs, carried on almost entirely at his own expense, related in a complete dissent from the views of Darwin and Dana. It is to be regretted that Alexander Agassiz was not spared to give the summary of his coral-reef work to science...
...America. From 1876 to 1881 he spent his winters in deep-sea dredging on the steamer "Blake" which was furnished him by the Government for that purpose. Subsequently he was engaged in examining the formation of coral reefs, visiting islands in all quarters of the world with reference to Darwin's theory of which he was one of the principal opponents. On certain forms of marine life, he was considered the best authority in the world, and was acknowledged to be the pioneer in the science of thalassography...
...made director of the University Museum, and last year he was a delegate to the Darwin celebration in June where he received the Victoria Research Medal of the Royal Geographical Society of England...
...Bullock; "Letters" of Cicero and Pliny; Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress"; Burn's "Tam O'Shanter"; Walton's "Complete Angler" and "Lives" of Donne and Herbert. "Autobiography of St. Augustine"; "Plutarch's "Lives"; Dryden's "Aeneid"; "Canterbury Tales"; "Imitation of Christ," Thomas a Kempis; Dante's "Divine Comedy"; Darwin's "Origin of Species"; "Arabian Nights...