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SIR GEORGE AIRY remarked that the nature of the subject was different from any upon which he ever lectured before, in regard to its indefiniteness and to the difficulty he should have if he considered it to be his duty to lead them definitely up to some point. He could only give them some idea of the theory to which he wished to lead them, and in doing so he would advert collaterally to a good many points which might be valuable. He proposed to divide his address into three parts. The first would relate to the measures of the earth; the second to observations on temperature; and the third to the manner in which they might suppose the earth to have been formed, especially with regard to the nebular hypothesis; and after that he would add some remarks on the conclusions to which these lead.
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THE INTERIOR OF THE EARTH1. Nature 18, 41–44 (1878). https://doi.org/10.1038/018041b0
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