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WILL you be good enough to allow me to correct a somewhat important oversight in the note in last week's NATURE, on the work of the Coral Reef Committee of the Royal Society. You mention that the Royal Society has granted the sum of, £800, and the Government a gunboat, for the expedition. Even with this help, however, it would have been impossible to undertake the work unless the Department of Mines of the New South Wales Government, largely through the good offices of Prof. Anderson Stuart, had granted to the Committee the use of a complete set of boring tools and appliances, with an engine and boiler. Further, the Department has relaxed the somewhat stringent restrictions usually placed on the use of the tools, owing to the difficulties which will be experienced in a waterless and sparsely inhabited island. For such generous assistance, and to Prof. Stuart, who has helped in many different ways, the Committee cannot be too grateful.
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WATTS, W. Boring a Coral Reef. Nature 53, 248 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/053248b0
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