Friday, February 13, 2009

Agassiz After San Francisco Earthquake

"Stanford President David S. Jordan wrote, "Somebody—Dr. Angell, perhaps—remarked that 'Agassiz was great in the abstract but not in the concrete.'"
[http://quake06.stanford.edu/centennial/tour/stop3.html]

This is an Agassiz statue that fell after the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake

No comments:

Post a Comment