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THE question of the solidification of the crust of the earth from the fluid interior nucleus, as referred to by Mr. Mathieu Williams, in NATURE, vol. xv. p. 5, is one which has been long since fully discussed in my papers in the Philosophical Transactions, the Atlantis, vol. i., and in a paper of which an abstract appears in the Report of the British Association for 1856. As far as I am aware, no person has controverted my conclusions as to the process of solidification of the earth. The results are, in the main, somewhat similar to those so admirably illustrated and enforced by Mr. Robert Mallet, and also such as Mr. Williams upholds in this journal.
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HENNESSY, H. On the Internal Fluidity of the Earth. Nature 15, 78 (1876). https://doi.org/10.1038/015078a0
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