Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- ERRATA
- CHAPTER I PARENTAGE AND BOYHOOD
- CHAPTER II YOUTHFUL TRAVELS
- CHAPTER III COLLEGE COURSE
- CHAPTER IV CHOICE OF A PROFESSION, 1830
- CHAPTER V PROFESSORIAL LIFE
- CHAPTER VI PROFESSORIAL LIFE (continued)
- CHAPTER VII MARRIED LIFE
- CHAPTER VIII TRAVELS, 1826—1839
- CHAPTER IX ALPINE TRAVELS, 1841—1842
- CHAPTER X ALPINE TRAVELS, 1843—1851
- CHAPTER XI FAILURE OF HEALTH
- CHAPTER XII LIFE IN ST. ANDREWS
- CHAPTER XIII THE CLOSE
- CHAPTER XIV FORBES' SCIENTIFIC WORK
- CHAPTER XV FORBES' CONTRIBUTIONS TO OUR KNOWLEDGE OF GLACIERS
- APPENDIX A REPLY TO PROFESSOR TYNDALL'S REMARKS, IN HIS WORK ‘ON THE GLACIERS OF THE ALPS,’ RELATING TO RENDU'S ‘THÉORIE DES GLACIERS’
- APPENDIX B HISTORICAL REMARKS ON THE FIRST DISCOVERY OF THE REAL STRUCTURE OF GLACIER ICE
- APPENDIX C AUGUSTE BALMAT
- APPENDIX D LIST OF PRINCIPAL FORBES' SCIENTIFIC WRITINGS
- Plate section
CHAPTER XIV - FORBES' SCIENTIFIC WORK
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 October 2011
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- ERRATA
- CHAPTER I PARENTAGE AND BOYHOOD
- CHAPTER II YOUTHFUL TRAVELS
- CHAPTER III COLLEGE COURSE
- CHAPTER IV CHOICE OF A PROFESSION, 1830
- CHAPTER V PROFESSORIAL LIFE
- CHAPTER VI PROFESSORIAL LIFE (continued)
- CHAPTER VII MARRIED LIFE
- CHAPTER VIII TRAVELS, 1826—1839
- CHAPTER IX ALPINE TRAVELS, 1841—1842
- CHAPTER X ALPINE TRAVELS, 1843—1851
- CHAPTER XI FAILURE OF HEALTH
- CHAPTER XII LIFE IN ST. ANDREWS
- CHAPTER XIII THE CLOSE
- CHAPTER XIV FORBES' SCIENTIFIC WORK
- CHAPTER XV FORBES' CONTRIBUTIONS TO OUR KNOWLEDGE OF GLACIERS
- APPENDIX A REPLY TO PROFESSOR TYNDALL'S REMARKS, IN HIS WORK ‘ON THE GLACIERS OF THE ALPS,’ RELATING TO RENDU'S ‘THÉORIE DES GLACIERS’
- APPENDIX B HISTORICAL REMARKS ON THE FIRST DISCOVERY OF THE REAL STRUCTURE OF GLACIER ICE
- APPENDIX C AUGUSTE BALMAT
- APPENDIX D LIST OF PRINCIPAL FORBES' SCIENTIFIC WRITINGS
- Plate section
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- Life and Letters of James David Forbes , pp. 455 - 491Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1873