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Louis Agassiz. 



his biographical sketch of Agassiz, all the physical 

 laws of the glaciers were brought to light." 



In the daily expeditions Agassiz displayed his in- 

 trepid nature, always being to the fore, adventurous, 

 bold and hardy, leading expeditions over the glacier 

 that astonished the guides themselves. Altogether 

 the summer was a most successful one, and the 

 autumn saw Agassiz in Great Britain studying the 

 glaciers there and combating the English scientists 

 who refused even then to entertain his ideas. Re- 

 ferring to this, Agassiz once said in a public lecture, 

 at Penikese : Among the older naturalists, only 

 one stood by me. Dr. Buckland, Dean of West- 

 minster, who had come to Switzerland at my urgent 

 request for the express purpose of seeing my evidence 

 and who had been fully convinced of the ancient 

 extension of ice there, consented to accompany me 

 on my glacier hunt in Great Britain. We went first 

 to the Highlands of Scotland, and it is one of the 

 delightful recollections of my life that as we ap- 

 proached the castle of the Duke of Argyll, standing 

 in a valley not unlike some of the Swiss valleys, I 

 said to Buckland : ^ Here we shall find our first traces 

 of glaciers'; and, as the stage entered the valley, 

 we actually drove over an ancient terminal moraine, 

 which spanned the opening of the valley.'* 



Agassiz did not confine his trips to the glacier to 

 the summer alone. In the winter of 1841 he visited 

 the glacier of the Aar, and hunted for the stakes he 

 had planted the previous summer, one object being 

 to learn if the water flowed beneath the glacier as it 

 did in the summer. The results of this trip are 



