1922 Living Age 10 June 657 Professor F. E. Weiss..writes in the Manchester Guardian that Professor Wegener's theory ‘constitutes a good working hypothesis, and the striking simplicity with which it allows many phenomena to be explained will greatly stimulate further enquiry’.

1926 J. W. Gregory in Rep. Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 1925 316 The increasing evidence of the mobility of the earth's crust has prepared the way for a sympathetic reception of Wegener's theory of continental drift.

1963 Sci. Amer. Apr. 90/1 Between 1920 and 1922 Wegener's hypothesis excited great controversy.

1982 Nature 23/ 30 Dec. 681/2 Jeffreys refers with regret to the defection of Sir Arthur Holmes to ‘Wegener's theory’.

1960 Bull. Amer. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists 44 245 (caption) Early tertiary paleography and trans-Atlantic migration route for shelf benthos according to Wegenerian hypothesis of continental drift.

1967 Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. 5 340 Some zoologists are inclined to accept the Wegenerian idea that the Atlantic Ocean is indeed young, and of no greater antiquity than the Cretaceous.

1980 Guardian 20 Nov. 13/8 Pangea..probably existed for a few hundred million years before it..began to break up to generate Wegenerian drift.

1948 Acta Path. & Microbiol. Scandinav. XXV. 582 Clinically, this case agreed well with the previously described cases of Wegener's granulomatosis.

1957 Thorax XII. 57/1 The syndrome has been known as Wegener's granulomatosis since his detailed description of three cases in 1936 and 1939.

1977 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 4 Dec. 27/6 An autopsy showed that my grandmother died of a very rare disease called Wegener's granulomatosis.