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THE author, who was for fifteen months medical officer to the cable station at Cocos-Keeling, presents us with an interesting book on that atoll made classical by the researches of Darwin during the voyage of the Beagle. The account of the formation and history of the colony is a romance vividly portrayed, but the main interest of the book lies in the author's observations on coral-life and on the processes in operation which can shape an atoll.
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Cocos-Keeling Atoll 1 . Nature 84, 432–433 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/084432a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/084432a0