Suggested Reef Boring at the Bermuda Islands

Abstract

THE issue of NATURE containing the notice of the failure of the Royal Society boring expedition has just reached me, so I hasten to call attention to the great value of the Bermudas as a permanent home for a scientific station, and where borings might be readily conducted at any convenient time. A glance at the map will show that the fauna of the deep sea, of coral reefs, the avifauna of the ocean, and a complex meteorology, may all be studied at one and the same station, and in close proximity to New York and Halifax.