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and Wales, it is curious to find Buckland answering: ‘I am sorry that I cannot entirely adopt the new theory you advocate to explain transported blocks by moraines; for supposing it adequate to explain the phenomena of Switzerland, it would not apply to the granite blocks and transported gravel of England, which I can only explain by referring to currents of water.’
During the same summer Mrs. Buckland writes from Interlaken, in the course of a journey in Switzerland with her husband. . . ‘We have made a good tour of the Oberland and have seen glaciers, etc., but Dr. Buckland is as far as ever from agreeing with you.’
We shall see hereafter how completely he became a convert to Agassiz's glacial theory in its widest acceptation.
One friend, scarcely mentioned thus far in this biography, was yet, from the beginning, the close associate of Agassiz's glacier work.
Arnold Guyot and he had been friends from boyhood.
Their university life separated them for a time, Guyot being at Berlin while Agassiz was at Munich, and they became colleagues at Neuchatel only after Agassiz had been for some years established there.
From that time forward there was hardly any break in their intercourse; they came to America at about
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