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Reference numberRR/8/91
LevelItem
TitleReferee'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
Datend [1878]
DescriptionRecommended 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]
Extent16p
FormatManuscript
Physical descriptionLetter on paper
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Access statusOpen
Related materialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1879.0061 Vol.170 1879
Related records in the catalogueRR/8/90
RR/8/92
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Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA8289Thomson; William (1824 - 1907); Baron Kelvin of Largs; mathematician and physicist1824 - 1907
NA8198Darwin; Sir; George Howard (1845 - 1912); mathematician and geophysicist1845 - 1912
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