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Add. MS a/200/31
Title
Letter from George Airy
Date(s)
- 3 Dec. 1840 (Creation)
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3 pp.
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Scope and content
Royal Observatory Greenwich - GA has been reading WW's work on tides 'with great pleasure and profit'. He gives an outline of queries he finds between various collected observations - especially around the coast of Britain and parts of Europe - and theory.