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Referee's report by William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, on a paper 'On the bodily tides of viscous and semi-elastic spheroids, and on the ocean tides upon a yielding nucleus' by George Howard Darwin

Reference number: RR/8/91

Date: 1878

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Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Refers to observations of Captain Clark [William Tierney Clark?].

Subject: Physics and Chemistry, Mathematics

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1879]

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RR/8/91
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1878
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Letter on paper
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16 pages
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Manuscript

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William Thomson

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William Thomson, Referee's report by William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, on a paper 'On the bodily tides of viscous and semi-elastic spheroids, and on the ocean tides upon a yielding nucleus' by George Howard Darwin, 1878, RR/8/91, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_8_91/referees-report-by-william-thomson-1st-baron-kelvin-on-a-paper-on-the-bodily-tides-of-viscous-and-semi-elastic-spheroids-and-on-the-ocean-tides-upon-a-yielding-nucleus-by-george-howard-darwin, accessed on 16 January 2026

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    Dates: 1832 - 1954

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