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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2016

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The Geologist , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , March 1864 , pp. 113 - 120
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page 113 note * Mayer has recently proved that the action of the tides tends to arrest the motion of the earth npon its axis. And although it has been proved that since the time of Hipparchus the length of the terrestrial day has not increased by the one-hundredth part of a second, yet this fact obviously leaves untouched the conclusion to which Mayer's reasoning leads.