Item 27 - Letter from John Leadbetter

Glasgow - JL enjoyed WW's talk on tides delivered at the BAAS meeting last September: He gives his results and analysis of his tide observations of the river Clyde. It is not certain if the tide rises higher now at Glasgow than it formerly did: 'my enquiries lead me to think that little change has taken place in the length of the tide but a slow and now palpable change has taken place in the pull of the tide'. JL would like WW's support to start 'a series of observations either here or at Greenwich or at both in connexion with those made at the other stations', this he claims, 'would aid the discussion and extend the benefit of your investigations by showing the influence and progress of the great Atlantic nerve which flows under the channel of the Clyde'.