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OF recent years tidal research in this country has resumed the vigour which it showed during the fruitful years of Sir George Darwin's work and influence. Among official bodies, the Admiralty and Ordnance Survey have shown renewed activity in promoting tidal observation and research; but the revival is perhaps most closely linked with the interest shown in tidal problems by Mr. G. I. Taylor and by Prof. J. Proudman. The former has made several brilliant incursions into the field of tidal research, and has solved some important outstanding problems. His work on the tidal dissipation of energy in the Irish Sea has already inspired other workers to researches of a similar kind. Recently he has published a solution of the problem of tides on a rotating rectangular basin, a subject which had foiled the attempts of many former workers, including the late Lord Ray-leigh; also, by an elegant investigation of the waves in a tapering channel with a sloping bed, he has lately explained the special tidal features in the Bristol Channel.
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British Research on Tides. Nature 108, 418 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/108418a0
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