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THERE appeared in NATURE of April 20, 1916, an abstract of an article by me on sponge culture which was published in the West Indian Bulletin towards the end of 1915. In this article an account was given of Moore's work in Florida, and of a more recent commercial undertaking at the Caicos Islands, in which marketable sponges had been reared from cuttings on cement discs in comparatively shallow sea-water.
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DUNLOP, W. The Cultivation of Sponges. Nature 103, 184–185 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/103184b0
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