Penny Blood: Serial Sensation and Working-Class Entertainment — page 311: what you’re looking at

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294 APPENDIX. decided judgment upon the argument. But it will be ob- served that the notice makes no mention of the amount of contraction of the spheroid, which would be required to give the additional velocity of rotation. This is a very important point; for it must be remembered that, while contraction is accelerating, tidal friction is in the meanwhile retarding the rotational speed’. It is hardly conceivable that the supposed central block could have solidified very long before a crust could form, and the results of our prezent investigations tend to show, that the contraction since that epoch has not been great. 1 The remarkable and profound investigations of Mr G. H. Darwin, upon The remote history of the Earth, and on The Tides of a viscous Spheroid, will be found described in a popular manner by Prof, Ball, in ‘ Nature,” Vol. 25, p. 79, 1881. commiclsoolkks (CO) aw—— quae — a [tee - = oe i ee, Be PP ee a, | eM MA