Memoir of Arnold Guyot, 1807-84; Read Before the National Academy, April 21, 1886 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Arnold Guyot died at Princeton on the 8th of February, 1884. Funeral services were held in the church, where the officers and stndents of the college and other friends were gathered with the relatives of the deceased, and excellent memorial discourses were pronounced by Rev. Horace llinsdale and Dr. James Murray, dean of the college. His remains lie buried in the Princeton Cemetery. LIST OF THE WRITINGS OF PROF. ARNOLD GUYOT. 1835. Inaugural Dissertation, at Berlin, on the Natural Classification of Lukes. (In Latin.) 1835. Numerous contributions to the Encyclopedic clu XlXemeSiecle, Paris. Among them the more extensive are on Germany, Physical Geography of Germany, and on the System of the Alps. 1838. On the Structure of Glaciers and the Laws of Glacier Motion. Read before the Geological Society of France in 1838, but not published until 1883. 1842. On the Ribboned Structure of the Glacier of Gries. From the paper of 1838. Read before the Soc. Sci.Nat.de Neuchatel, December 1,1841, and published in abstract in the Verhandl. d. Schweiz Nat. Gesell- schaft, Altdorf, 1842, pp. 1!9, 200. Published in full, excepting the last part, in New Phil. J., Edinburgh, XXXV, 1843, in a paper on Agassiz's Glacial Researches, by Desor; also in Tyndall's Glaciers of the Alps (1856), and his Forms of Water (1872); also in full in Agassiz's Systeme Glaciare (1847). 1842. Observations on the Erratic Phenomena of Lower Switzerland and the Juras. Verhandl. d. Schweiz Nat. Ges., Altdorf, for July, 1842, pp. 132-145. 1843. '45, '47. Observations on the Erratic Phenomena of Switzerland. Bull. Soc. Sci. Nat., Neuchatel, for November, 1843, May and December, 1845, and January, 1847. 1844. On the Law of the Formation and Distribution of Glacier Crevasses. 1847. Erratic Phenomena ...