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BY the courtesy of Mr. C. S. Elton, Dept. of Zoology, University Museum, Oxford, the writer has seen photographs taken at Spitsbergen of loose stones on mud flats forming striking patterns of polygons. On inspecting these photographs, Capt. D. Brunt of the Meteorological Office at once recalled a paper by Rayleigh “On Convection Currents in a Horizontal Layer of Fluid” (Phil. Mag. 1916). The present writer in turn recalled Bénard's thesis on the same subject (Gauthiers-Villars, Paris 1901).
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LOW, A. Instability of Viscous Fluid Motion. Nature 115, 299–300 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115299a0
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