Title
Sunday-School Convention . . . . John Muir's Lecture on Glacier Formation.
Files
Kimes Entry Number
A3
Original Date
6-12-1879
Publication
San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin
Page/Column
p. 3, col. 4
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Sunday-School Convention . . . . John Muir's Lecture on Glacier Formation." (1879). John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes, 1986 (Muir articles 1866-1986). 638.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmb/638
William and Maymie Kimes Annotation
With the assistance of many diagrams, Muir discoursed on the formation of Yosemite Valley by the action of glaciers, dissenting from the widely-accepted Whitney theory of subsidence. With his Scottish humor, he inquired where ""the little granite plug went to that fell out?"" His lecture was enthusiastically received and later more than one hundred people joined him on a climb to Upper Yosemite Falls.