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I AM very sorry if I have represented Mr. Reade as saying what he did not intend to say, but the construction I put upon his words seemed, and still seems, to me to be that which they naturally bear. Mr. Reade's notion of what it is that the contraction hypothesis maintains, and his reasons for differing from its conclusions, are apparently summarised in Chapter XI. on pp. 121-25. He there tries to form an estimate of the ratio between the radial and circumferential contractions within a shell of 30 miles in thickness which he assumes to be solid. It seemed to me accordingly that he was contemplating only contraction within a thin shell which he himself starts with assuming to be solid, and that he deals only with “unequal contraction in the solid shell itself.”
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GREEN, A. [Letters to Editor]. Nature 35, 463 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/035463b0
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