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FOR several months past articles and letters have appeared in NATURE on the subject of subsidence and elevation of the earth's crust by addition and removal of weight. In this connection also much has been said in regard to the history of the idea. I wish therefore to draw attention to the fact that in 1859 I read a paper before the American Association for the Advancement of Science on the subject of the “Formation of Continents and Ocean Basins,” in which, after giving the views of Herschell and Airy, I bring out this idea very prominently, and illustrate it by many diagrams. An abstract of this paper, by Sterry Hunt, was publi hed in the Canadian Naturalist, vol. iv., 1859, p. 293, and reference to it will be found in the “Royal Society Catalogue,” vol. iii. p. 919.
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LECONTE, J. Elevation and Subsidence. Nature 29, 212–213 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/029212b0
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