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Letter from George Howard Darwin, on his paper 'On the bodily tides of viscous and semi-elastic spheroids, and on the ocean tides upon a yielding nucleus' to The Royal Society

Reference number: RR/8/92

Date: 05 August 1878

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Refers to the communicator of the paper Glaisher [James Glaisher or James Whitbread Lee Glaisher]. Has since undertaken further investigations, and the new information requires the recalculation of much of the paper. Requests his paper be returned to him, and that the paper be withdrawn if necessary.

Subject: Physics and Chemistry, Mathematics

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

Reference number
RR/8/92
Earliest possible date
05 August 1878
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Letter from George Howard Darwin, on his paper 'On the bodily tides of viscous and semi-elastic spheroids, and on the ocean tides upon a yielding nucleus' to The Royal Society, 05 August 1878, RR/8/92, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_8_92/letter-from-george-howard-darwin-on-his-paper-on-the-bodily-tides-of-viscous-and-semi-elastic-spheroids-and-on-the-ocean-tides-upon-a-yielding-nucleus-to-the-royal-society, accessed on 11 July 2026

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