| Description | The computational forms for his scheme on the reduction of tidal observations, explained in the Royal Society's Proceedings, are printed. Their composition was very difficult and therefore expensive, but less than expected. Sets of apparatus have been sent out to South Australia, Germany, Holland and Norway, and will be put to use in Hong Kong and in Britain. There is good hope that they will be useful in tidal research. He proposes to sell sets of the computation forms for slightly under cost price to private investigators. If the Indian Government requires copies he will charge cost price of 2 shillings and he may be able to refund part of his grant in a few years. He supposes he may send copies to researchers he knows, for example Mr. Chapman at Adelaide University, to whom he has sent apparatus worth £7 and some sets of forms. If this is not correct he will purchase forms himself. With a financial account appended.
G.H. Darwin was awarded a grant of £25 from the Royal Society's Donation Fund in November 1892, 'for assistance in the reduction of tidal observations, on the understanding that the account of the expenditure of this grant be kept distinct from that of the sum already assigned from the Government Grant'. |