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Has made corrections and additions to the manuscript, which has been left with this letter. Is willing to add a postscript referring to the work of William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin. Has sent this postscript to the printers.

Subject: Physics and Chemistry, Mathematics

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society]

Reference number
RR/8/93
Earliest possible date
07 November 1878
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
3 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Second letter from George Howard Darwin, regarding 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, 07 November 1878, RR/8/93, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_8_93/second-letter-from-george-howard-darwin-regarding-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 15 July 2026

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