Abstract
In his memoir of Dr Chalmers, lately read to this Society, Mr Ramsay has referred to an experiment which Dr Chalmers was anxious to have performed on the tide-wave in the Bay of Fundy. The object was to determine the earth's density by the attraction of the tide-wave on a plummet or spirit-level, on the same principle as Maskelyne's experiment on Schiehallion, but with the superior advantages arising from the perfect homogeneity of the attracting mass, and from the circumstance that all the observations might be made at a single station. The experiment might, in short, appear to unite the advantages both of Maskelyne's and Cavendish's methods of determining the earth's density.
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