gressly

Updated: May 28, 2025

More than thirty years ago, before Dana and Darwin had published their beautiful investigations upon the coral reefs, a pupil of mine, the late Armand Gressly, had traced the structure and mode of growth of coral reefs and atolls in the Jura mountains, thus anticipating, by a geological investigation, results afterward obtained by dredging in the ocean.

Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz - Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence