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IT will I daresay be within the recollection of many of those who are now present that I was honoured by the invitation to deliver the opening lecture in this hall last year. In response to that invitation I addressed to you a discourse which I ventured to call “A Glimpse through the Corridors of Time.” Accounts of it have appeared in very many quarters, both at home and abroad. I am myself responsible for the account which appeared in the columns of NATURE, as well as for the pamphlet form in which the lecture has since been issued. The chief reason why I now recur to the subject remains to be stated. Among the various comments which have been made upon that address, some are by no means favourable to the views I ventured to put forward, and they have been the theme of considerable discussion. Up to the present I have not made any reply to the criticisms which have appeared; I postponed doing so until a suitable opportunity should have arisen for a review of the whole subject. Your kindness in inviting me once again to address this great Institute has afforded such an opportunity, and with your permission I propose to preface the subject of my lecture this evening by a reply to those critics who have honoured me with their attention.
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ON THE OCCURRENCE OF GREAT TIDES SINCE THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE GEOLOGICAL EPOCH 1 . Nature 27, 201–203 (1882). https://doi.org/10.1038/027201b0
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