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The Cocos-Keeling Atoll

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I CONSIDER myself fortunate that the author of the review of “Coral and Atolls”, which appeared in NATURE of October 6, has addressed two direct questions to me, for in the answering of these questions it may be possible to open in a more frank manner the discussion of those problems with which I have dealt, and which are to be solved by dispassionate argument and investigation rather than by anonymous destructive criticism.

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WOOD-JONES, F. The Cocos-Keeling Atoll. Nature 84, 528–529 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/084528a0

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