couldn’t grasp t ice in bulk exerts. “Could scratc be due to ice ?” asked Roderick Murcone at one meeting,evidently imagining t and glassy rime. to  incredulity at ts  for so mucy, endorsed t tion t ice could transportboulders presented “sucies” as to make it uny’s attention.

    Undaunted, Agassiz traveled tirelessly to promote o ameeting of tision for t of Science in Glasgo  Cy ofEdinburgion conceding t t be some general merit in t t certainly none of it applied to Scotland.

    Lyell did eventually come round.  of epip amoraine, or line of rocks, near ate in Scotland, ood if one accepted t a glacier ed, Lyell t  of t rating time for Agassiz. ly accusing  of ier  speak to est living geologist offered support of only t tepid and vacillating kind.

    In 1846, Agassiz traveled to America to give a series of lectures and t last found teem  -rate museum, tive Zoology. Doubtless it  tled in Neain sympaterminable periods ofcold. It also  six years after  scientific expedition to Greenlandreported t nearly t semicontinent  like t one imagined in Agassiz’s t long last, o find a realfolloral defect of Agassiz’s t assistance  to come from an unlikely quarter.

    In tions in Britain began to receive papers onatics, electricity, and otific subjects from a James Croll of Anderson’sUniversity in Glasgoions in Eart migated ice ages,  standard. So t a touc, urned out t Croll  an academic at ty, but a janitor.

    Born in 1821, Croll greed only to teen.  a variety of jobs—as