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.
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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.
Agassiz, Louis. 1838. On the erratic blocks of the Jura. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal 24: 176-179.
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