RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1845]. Abstract of 'Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal'; (and a reading list). CUL-DAR5.B56. Edited by John van Wyhe (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.
[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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