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A FEW weeks ago I prepared for the February number of the Alpine Journals review of the contributions made by the Rev. Canon Moseley to the theory of glacier motion, which have appeared at various times during the last fifteen years in the Proceedings of the Royal Society and the Philosophical Magazine. Some new facts having come to my knowledge since the publication of my paper, I. venture to recur to the subject, and to invite discussion upon those memoirs of Canon Moseley in which he endeavours to prove that the descent of glaciers by their weight alone is a mechanical impossibility.§ The arguments he advances in support of this conclusion may be epitomised as follows:—
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MATHEWS, W. Mechanical Properties of Ice, and their Relation to Glacier Motion . Nature 1, 534–535 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/001534c0
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