The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1845]. Abstract of 'Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal'; (and a reading list). CUL-DAR5.B56. Edited by John van Wyhe (The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 11.2021. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR5 contains Edinburgh lecture notes, 1825-7; class cards; zoological walk to Portobello; geological notes, Shrewsbury & with Sedgwick; alluvium; Salisbury Craigs; for glacier papers, 1839-42.

[B56]

Edinburgh New Phil Journal no 48

Abstract of Agassiz on ice.

Argue against Agassiz last number of L'Institut 1837 p 417 Read

seldom be abandon a beach a few pebbles generally are going on break

L'Institut no 221 1837 p 346 Read

1858 p 55

Case of Blocks transported along Beach Baer Scandinavia

I suspect fragments turn very black long arches – Sand of [illeg] curiosity.

A on such Theories it is odd that like heaviest blocks in which might be expected to have scratched the surface are angular.

[B56v]

Read Charpentier sur les Bloc erratiques.

Hitchcock geolog of Massachusetts

[Darwin recorded that he "skimmed" this work on 12 Nov 1845.]

Featherstonaugh Geology

Rogers in Reports of Brit Assoc vol. III

Bigsby Geolog Transact. vol VI p. 2.

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