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THE observations which I made in 1883 among the coral-reefs of the Solomon Group on the habits of the Holothurians support the view that these animals do not subsist on living coral. I carefully examined the material voided by about twenty individuals, and found its composition to be of a mixed character. In addition to the calcareous sand and gravel which formed its bulk, there were numerous tests of the large foraminifer—Orbitolites—and several small univalve and bivalve shells, besides the joints of a stony alga and the operculum of a young nerite, &c. This observation is supplementary to those contained in my previous letter on this subject (NATURE, vol. xxvii. p. 7).
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GUPPY, H. Holothurians. Nature 29, 384 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/029384a0
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