No. 8. \From The Scottish Geographical Magazine, 

 1912, Vol. XXVIII, p. 169.] 



IN AND AROUND THE MORTERATSCH 

 GLACIER 1 : A STUDY 2 IN THE NATU- 

 RAL HISTORY OF ICE 



MY first acquaintance with the Swiss glaciers was made 

 in the summer of the year 1867, on a short walking tour, 

 which brought me, as it does most tourists, to Grindelwald. 

 As a tourist I visited the lower glacier and penetrated into 

 the artificial grotto, which was not illuminated ; indeed it was 

 so dark that though one heard the music of a zither, it was 

 impossible to distinguish the person who played it. Possess- 

 ing at the time no acquaintance with ice except such as is to 

 be obtained from books, I learned very little from this visit. 

 It is true that I saw a great deal, but I may say that I observed 

 nothing the recollection of which I could take away with me. 

 The ice-world was like a new planet to me, and my attitude 

 towards it resembled that described by Forbes when, looking 



1 An address read before the Society in Edinburgh, by Dr W. S. Bruce, on 

 behalf of the author on January 24, 1912. 



1 wish to take this opportunity to thank Dr Bruce for the readiness with 

 which he undertook, at very short notice, to deliver my lecture when I was 

 disabled by illness, and to congratulate him on the success with which he 

 accomplished the task. J. Y. B. 



2 Previous studies are to be found in the following : ' Some Observations on 

 Sea- Water Ice' (Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1874, xxii. p. 431); 'On Ice 

 and Brines' (Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1887, xiv. pp. 129- 

 149, also in Nature, xxxv. p. 608, and xxxvi. p. 9); 'Chemical and Physical 

 Notes' (Antarctic Manual, 1901, pp. 73-108); 'On Ice and its Natural History' 

 (Proceedings of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, 1909, vol. xix. pp. 243- 

 276); ' Beobachtungen iiber die Einwirkung cler Strahlung auf das Gletschereis ' 

 ( Verhandlungen der Schweizerischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft, Basel, 1910, 

 i. p. 330). (See above, pp. 25, 130, 233, 280.) 



