 | 1842 - Liczba stron: 476
...surface of an entire continent from N. to S. and that the direction of the boulders and the striae is to a great extent up-hill. When these and many...disposed to modify their views, particularly when they fmd that the existence of glaciers in Scotland and England (I mean in the Alpine sense) is not yet,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell - 1843 - Liczba stron: 606
...surface of an entire continent from N. to S. and that the direction of the boulders and the striae is to a great extent up-hill. When these and many...number of British geologists. The presence of Mr. Lyell at this time in North America, is indeed most opportune, for whatever changes his mind may have... | |
 | Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz - 1885 - Liczba stron: 448
...mind. . . . The existence of glaciers in Scotland and England (I mean in the Alpine sense) is not, at all events, established to the satisfaction of...by far the greater number of British geologists." Twenty years later, with rare candor, Murchison wrote to Agassiz as follows ; by its connection, though... | |
 | Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz - 1885 - Liczba stron: 848
...mind. . . . The existence of glaciers in Scotland and England (I mean in the Alpine sense) is not, at all events, established to the satisfaction of...believe to be by far the greater number of British geolo« Twenty years later, with rare candor, Mur-> chison wrote to Agassiz as follows ; by its connection,... | |
 | Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz - 1885 - Liczba stron: 452
...theory, there can be little risk that such a doctrine should take too deep a hold of the- mind. . . . The existence of glaciers in Scotland and England (I mean in the Alpine sense) is not, at all events, established to the satisfaction of what I believe to be by far the greater number of... | |
 | Charles Frederick Holder - 1893 - Liczba stron: 420
...mind. . . . The existence of glaciers in Scotland and England (I mean in the Alpine sense) is not, at all events, established to the satisfaction of...by far the greater number of British geologists." Yet in later years Murchison became an ardent convert to the theories advanced by Agassiz, and Darwin,... | |
 | Charles Frederick Holder - 1893 - Liczba stron: 420
...theory, there can be little risk that such a doctrine should take too deep a hold of the mind. . . . The existence of glaciers in Scotland and England (I mean in the Alpine sense) is not, at all events, established to the satisfaction of what I believe to be by far the greater number of... | |
 | Jules Marcou - 1895 - Liczba stron: 346
...Geological Society of London, 1842, he says : " The existence of glaciers in Scotland and England is not, at all events, established to the satisfaction of...by far the greater number of British geologists." It was not until more than twenty years after Agassiz's visit of 1840, that at last, in 1862, Murchison... | |
 | 1842 - Liczba stron: 632
...surface of an entire continent from N. to S., and that the direction of the boulders and the striae is to a great extent up-hill. When these and many...Scotland and England (I mean in the Alpine sense) are not yet, at all events, established to the satisfaction of what I believe to be by far the greater... | |
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... acknowledges the great difficulty of believing that solid masses of ice 3000 to 4000 feet thick, covered the whole region ; that no action of a glacier will explain the persistent striation of the surface of an entire continent from N. to S. and that... 