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...lecture of last Monday night, Prof. Wright gave the results of his own researches for facts to work out the details of Prof. Agassiz's already proved Glacial Theory. He had himself located the southern boundary of the great ice sheet, which once covered the northern half of this continent, by means of the great heaps of sand and gravel called terminal moraines, pited up by the ice where its progress was stopped. These heaps are sometimes very large, one in Pennsylvania is 150 feet high and 12 miles long, Nantucket and Martha's Vinevard are also terminal moraines...
...number of views of glacial scratches and the pebbles which made them were next shown, while the cause of their formation was being explained. Then pictures of glacial deposits some 95 feet thick were presented. Cedar logs of large size are often buried in these and the lecturer said that while camping in Alaska his only fuel was preglacial woods many thousands of years...
Illustrated Lecture. "Recent Discoveries in Glacial Geology." Prof. G. Frederick Wright, D. D., LL. D., of the United States Geological Survey. Boylston Hall Lecture Room, 7.30 p. m. The public are invited...
...Professor Wright, of Oberlin Seminary, has recently been delivering a series of lectures in the Lowell course in Boston on the subject of "Glaciers and their Action." He has kindly consented to give a lecture this evening before members of the University on the subject of "Recent Discoveries in Glacial Geology," using for illustration a selection from his views of glaciers, thrown on the scene in Boylston by Professor Cooke's powerful lantern...
...illustrated lecture upon "Recent Discoveries in Glacial Geology" will be delivered by Professor G. F. Wright of Washington in Boylston Hall Lecture Room, Monday, December...