Item 86 - Letter from John William Lubbock

3 pp.

St James's Place - LWL would not object at all if WW took up the cotidal lines and wrote a paper on the subject ['Essay Towards a first Approximation to a Map of Cotidal Lines', Phil. Trans., 1833]. JWL will send him the relevant references and authorities to the Athenaeum Club. He has been afraid to draw many inferences from his data on tides until 'they received either confirmation or correction and the chief utility which occurred to me in presenting that kind of information about the tides in a condensed form was to draw the attention of navigators to the subject, and so in the end get facts which can be depended upon'. He is glad that WW likes his little treatise on comets, and will look again at the method of Gauss [Karl F. Gauss].