of-factly told te some distance a tones ion, ation: ‘transported t glacier extended in t as far as town of Bern.’ ”
Cier scientific gat friends uralist, Louis Agassiz, ial skepticism came to embrace,and eventually all but appropriate, theory.
Agassiz udied under Cuvier in Paris and nouralory at tel in Szerland. Anotanistnamed Karl Scually t to coin term ice age (in German Eiszeit ), in1837, and to propose t to s ice just t over muc ion. Agassiz es—to regret it as Agassizincreasingly got t for imacy, was heory.
Cier liketer enemy of , yetanot least partly in mind ages in scientific discovery: first, people deny t it is true; t it isimportant; finally t the wrong person.
At all events, Agassiz made t to understand tion, everyo ts of t Alpine peaks, often apparently una eam to climbtered an unyielding reluctance to accept heories.
urged o return to ise, fossil fis Agassiz was a man possessed by an idea.
Agassiz’s t in Britain, uralists en 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 G