Note on the tides

This communication contains some interesting results which Mr. Lubbock has obtained from observations made at Plymouth, Portsmouth, and Sheerness, under the superintendence of the Masters attendant at those dockyards. Mr. Dessiou has, with extraordinary perseverance, just completed the discussion of about 6000 additional observations of the tides at the London Docks, with a view to found on a more certain basis the corrections of the moon’s parallax and declination. The results which he has obtained are utterly irreconcilable with the theory of Bernoulli, and therefore the tables computed upon that theory must be rejected as inaccurate.