AN INTERESTING STATEMENT.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12474, 26 February 1909, Page 2

AN INTERESTING STATEMENT.

[Press Association. — Copyright.],. Berlin, Feb. 24. Professor Hecker, of Potsdam, during six years of observation, has measured the. diurnal oscillations 7 of the solid earth and analogous tides^ showing a rising and falling of eighj; inches. Sir George Darwin and the" authorities at the Kimberley Observatory confirm this, though the latter, doubt the tidal analogy. . : . -■'■'.-■' i\ _ ' ■ . * ■ '