RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Agassiz, On the erratic blocks of the Jura, 1838. CUL-DAR5.B80. 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 12.2021. 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.
Agassiz. On the erratic blocks of the Jura. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal 24 (Jun.): 176-179.
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ED. New Phil Journ 1838. p. 177.
Agassiz states that the erratic on the Jura are angular, whist those propelled by the moraines are rounded.
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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