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Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 10: 1840-1842: Aet. 33-35. (search)
rn. visit to England. search for glacial remains in great Britain. Roads of Glen Roy. views of English naturalists concerning Agassiz's glacial theory. letter frd with what he already knew of glacial action. He visited the famous roads of Glen Roy in the Grampian Hills, where so many geologists had broken a lance in defense , of ancient ocean-levels and sea-beaches, formed at a time when they believed Glen Roy and the adjoining valleys to have been so many fiords and estuaries. To Agassdinburgh New Philosophical Journal, October, 1842, accompanied by a map of the Glen Roy region, and also an article entitled Parallel Roads of Glen Roy, in Scotland, Glen Roy, in Scotland, in the second volume of Agassiz's Geological Sketches. The glacial action in the whole neighborhood was such as to leave no doubt in the mind of Agassiz that Glen RoGlen Roy and the adjoining glens, or valleys, had been the drainage-bed for the many glaciers formerly occupying the western ranges of the Grampian Hills. He returned from
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 11: 1842-1843: Aet. 35-36. (search)
ckness of solid ice! Eleven years ago I spent a whole day in the valley where yesterday everything but the ice of the glaciers was palpably clear to me, and I then saw nothing but plain water and bare rock. These glaciers have been grand agencies. I am the more pleased with what I have seen in North Wales, as it convinces me that my view of the distribution of the boulders on the South American plains, as effected by floating ice, is correct. I am also more convinced that the valleys of Glen Roy and the neighboring parts of Scotland have been occupied by arms of the sea, and very likely (for in that point I cannot, of course, doubt Agassiz and Buckland) by glaciers also. It continued to be a grief to Agassiz that Humboldt, the oldest of all his scientific friends, and the one whose opinion he most reverenced, still remained incredulous. Humboldt's letters show that Agassiz did not willingly renounce the hope of making him a convert. Agassiz's own letters to Humboldt are missin
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Index. (search)
uegian natives, 736. G. Galapagos islands, 759, 762. Galloupe, C. G., 773. Geneva, invitation to, 276. Geoffroy St. Hilaire's progressive theory, remarks on, 383. Gibbes, 493. Glacial marks in Scotland, 806, 309, 376; Roads of Glen Roy, 308; in Ireland, 310; in New England, 411, 413; in New York, 426; at Halifax, 445; at Brooklyn, 449; at East Boston, 449; on Lake Superior, 464; in Maine, 622; in Brazil, 633, 639; in New York, 663; in Penikese, 774; in western prairies, 664; ie Viescher, 324; capillary fissures, 351; formation of crevasses, 353; sundials, 355; topographical survey, 355; stratification of neve , 357; new work, 364. Glaciers in Strait of Magellan, 720, 721, 723, 733, 742, 744, 746, 747, 751, 756. Glen Roy, roads of, 308. Goeppingen, 49. Gould, A. A., 436, 466. Gray, Asa, 415, 421, 437, 458, 643. Gray, Francis C., 534; leaves a sum to found a Museum of Comparative Zoology, 559. Gray, William, 559. Greenough, H., 561. Gressly, A., 653.
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, chapter 28 (search)
nt events of the successive eras in a manner that cannot fail to charm and instruct the most unscientific reader. American Journal of Science. The style of these essays is clear; the information such as to stimulate, as well as enlighten, the mind; and the illustrations serve as good aids to the thorough comprehension of the text. Boston Transcript. Geological Sketches. By Louis Agassiz. Second Series. 16mo, $1.50. Contents: I. Glacial Period. II. The Parallel Roads of Glen Roy, in Scotland. III. Ice-Period in America. IV. Glacial Phenomena in Maine. V. Physical History of the Valley of the Amazon. This volume, taken in connection with the first series of Geological Sketches, presents in a permanent form, and in their proper order, all the essays Professor Agassiz wrote in his maturer years on geological and glacial phenomena. These papers, rich with accumulated stores of scientific lore, and seeming, in their simple but animated and engaging st