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IN November, 1878, Sir William Thomson suggested to Mr. G. H. Darwin that he should investigate, experimentally, the lunar disturbance of gravity and the question of the tidal yielding of the solid earth. This Committee of the British Association was subsequently reappointed, and the authors' names were added to the list of its members. In May, 1879, the authors visited Sir William Thomson at Glasgow, and there saw an instrument which, although roughly put together, he believed to contain the principle by which success might perhaps be attained. The instrument was erected in the physical laboratory of the University of Glasgow. The following are the rough details:—
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Lunar Disturbance of Gravity 1 . Nature 25, 20–21 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/025020a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/025020a0