OF JOHN EDDOWES BOWMAN, ESQ. 73 
ment by Agassiz of the evidence he had collected 
of the former existence of glaciers in Scotland ; 
and being soon after favoured with a visit by the 
Professor himself, he was fully persuaded from 
conversation with him, that the appearances which 
he had witnessed on the hills round Galashiels, 
were to be ascribed to the action of glaciers. 
This solution of his previous difficulties he at 
once forwarded to the same journal, accompanied 
by a brief exposition of the views of Agassiz 
respecting glaciers, and an application of them to 
the case of the Eildon hills. It must be in the 
remembrance of many of us, that the last commu- 
nications of our regretted friend to this society, 
were a series of papers explanatory of the glacial 
theory, and presenting, in a condensed form, the 
substance of Agassiz’s work, Htudes sur les 
Glaciers de la Suisse. ‘Though he was greatly 
captivated with the new views opened by Agas- 
siz’s theory, and undertook a tour into North 
Wales, in the full expectation of discovering the 
traces of former glaciers, it is no small proof of 
the philosophical caution and self-restraint of his 
mind, that he resisted the seduction of some de- 
ceitful appearances, and candidly confessed that 
the evidence he had looked for, was wanting.— 
“‘ Believing,” he says—in words that well express 
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