290 LOUIS AGASSIZ. 



and Wales, it is curious to find Buckland an- 

 swering : " I am sorry that I cannot entirely 

 adopt the new theory you advocate to explain 

 transported blocks by moraines ; for suppos- 

 ing it adequate to explain the phenomena of 

 Switzerland, it would not apply to the gran- 

 ite blocks and transported gravel of England, 

 which I can only explain by referring to cur. 

 rents of water." During the same summer 

 Mrs. Buckland writes from Interlaken, in the 

 course of a journey in Switzerland with her 

 husband. ..." We have made a good tour 

 of the Oberland and have seen glaciers, etc., 

 but Dr. Buckland is as far as ever from agree- 

 ing with you." We shall see hereafter how 

 completely he became a convert to Agassiz's 

 glacial theory in its widest acceptation. 



One friend, scarcely mentioned thus far in 

 this biography, was yet, from the beginning, 

 the close associate of Agassiz's glacier work. 

 Arnold Guyot and he had been friends from 

 boyhood. Their university life separated them 

 for a time, Guyot being at Berlin while Agas- 

 siz was at Munich, and they became colleagues 

 at Neuchatel only after Agassiz had been for 

 some years established there. From that time 

 forward there was hardly any break in their 

 intercourse; they came to America at about 



