Mont Blanc: a flat boulder raised on a pinnacle of ice. Colour lithograph by Louis Haghe after J.D. Forbes.

James David Forbes : pioneer Scottish glaciologist / Frank F. Cunningham.

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Mont Blanc: a flat boulder raised on a pinnacle of ice. Colour lithograph by Louis Haghe after J.D. Forbes.

James David Forbes : pioneer Scottish glaciologist / Frank F. Cunningham.