. Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. CENTENNIAL VOLUME. Vol. XL —Part II. —No. I. CAMBRIDGE:JOHN WILSON AND SON. (Hnibcrsitg 5|rcss. 1885. Authors copies distributed in June, THE TORT UGAS AND FLORIDA REEFS. I5Y ALEXANDER AGASSIZ. Read Nov. 15, 1882. Cambridge, Jiine, 1885. MEMOIRS. I. Exploratiom. of the Surface Fauna of the Gulf Stream, under the Auspices of the UnitedStates Coast Surrey. — II. The Tortugas and Florida Beefs. By ALEXANDER AGASSIZ. (Published by permission of Carlile P. Patterson and J. E. Hilgard, Superinteudents United States Coast and Geodetic Sur
. Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. CENTENNIAL VOLUME. Vol. XL —Part II. —No. I. CAMBRIDGE:JOHN WILSON AND SON. (Hnibcrsitg 5|rcss. 1885. Authors copies distributed in June, THE TORT UGAS AND FLORIDA REEFS. I5Y ALEXANDER AGASSIZ. Read Nov. 15, 1882. Cambridge, Jiine, 1885. MEMOIRS. I. Exploratiom. of the Surface Fauna of the Gulf Stream, under the Auspices of the UnitedStates Coast Surrey. — II. The Tortugas and Florida Beefs. By ALEXANDER AGASSIZ. (Published by permission of Carlile P. Patterson and J. E. Hilgard, Superinteudents United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. Presented November 15, 1882. All naturalists who have visited the Florida Reefs have felt the difficulty ofapplying Darwins theory of reef formation to the peculiar conditions existing alongthe Straits of Florida. Agassiz, Le Conte, and E. B. Hunt have each in successionattempted to explain, from a different standpoint, the mode of formation of theFlorida Reefs. Agassiz stated, and his statement was afterward confirmed by LeConte, that the Florida Reefs had a distinctive character, and could not be explainedby subsidence, to which cause Darwin had ascribed the formation of barrier reefs
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