Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . 926 THE SUCCESSION OF THE DEMOORAGY. not only for the light they threw on their topography, but also,and mainly, for their classical researches into glaciation. For aknowledge of the scientific aspect of the great Alpine groupsJohn Ball did much. Forbess researches on the glaciers ofNorway, though not so extensive as in the case of Switzerland,were not of less scientific value. Murchisons investigations of.
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . 926 THE SUCCESSION OF THE DEMOORAGY. not only for the light they threw on their topography, but also,and mainly, for their classical researches into glaciation. For aknowledge of the scientific aspect of the great Alpine groupsJohn Ball did much. Forbess researches on the glaciers ofNorway, though not so extensive as in the case of Switzerland,were not of less scientific value. Murchisons investigations of. liUEADPEUIT TREE, KI , THE JIuLUCCAS.{Dij permission^ from a photograph supplied by the **Challenger Office^ Edinhurgh.) the Ural Chain, and Murchison, Lyell, and Sedgwicks journeysin the volcanic region of Auvergne (p. 80), while mainly forgeological jiurposcs, yielded valuable results in ]ihysical geog-raphy ; so have Lyells investigations of the volcanic region ofSicily and of the coasts of Denmark. Some topographical workhas been carried out in rjreece and the Balkan Peninsula, bothby private travellers and through the Hellenic Society. The Ordnance Survey of the British Islands, initiated about(he beginning of the centuiy, was nearly completed by Royal (icographical Society was founded in 1830, and duringthe period did much to promote exploration all over the worldand to Iaise the standard of geography at home. GREATER JllilTAIX. 9-17 Deep-sea research (oceanoi^n-aphy) may be said to have been ^^e^o^eaninitiated during the period under review, and to have cuhninat
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