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while John Perry's objections are cogently analysed in a paper in the same volume
by Brian Shipley 'Had Lord Kelvin a right?': John Perry, natural selection and the age
of the Earth, 1894-1895', pp. 91-105.
Rutherford's recollection of his encounter with Kelvin at the Royal
Institution in 1904 is documented in the biography by Arthur S. Eve, Rutherford
(New York: Macmillan, 1939), p. 107, and also in Burchfield, Lord Kelvin (2001),
p. 164 where it is discussed further.
James Blaylock's novel whose title refers to Kelvin is Lord Kelvin's Machine
(Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1992).
Chapter 12. Oceanic salination reconsidered
Further information on Joly can be found in John R. Nudds, 'The life and work
of John Joly (1857-1933)', Irish Journal of Earth Sciences 8 (1986), 81-94, and in
P. N. Wyse Jackson, 'A man of invention: John Joly (1857-1933), engineer, physicist
and geologist', in David S. Scott (ed.) Treasures of the Mind: A Trinity College
Dublin Quatercentenary Exhibition (London: Sothebys, 1992), pp. 86-96; 158-160.
Some of Joly's poetry including that on Oldhamia was published long after
his death in J. R. Nudds (ed.) Upon Sweet Mountains: A Selection of Poetry by John
Joly F.R.S. (Dublin: Trinity Closet Press, 1983).
Joly's sodium method is dealt with in more detail in P. N. Wyse Jackson,
'John Joly (1857-1933) and his determinations of the age of the Earth', in Lewis and
Knell, The Age of the Earth (2001), pp. 107-119, in which a comprehensive biblio-
graphy may be consulted. Joly's major paper on the sodium method of dating the
Earth was 'An estimate of the geological age of the Earth', Scientific Transactions of
the Royal Dublin Society 7, (1899), 23-66 [Reprinted in Annual Report of the
Smithsonian Institution for 1899, (1901), 247-288]. Further publications by Joly
that largely explained and defended his 1899 work were 'A fractionating rain-gauge',
Scientific Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society 9 (1900), 283-288; 'Geological
Age of the Earth', Geological Magazine, New Series, 7 (1900), 220-225 [Reprinted in
Nature 62 (1900), 235-237]; 'On Geological Age of the Earth', Report of the British
Association for the Advancement of Science, Bradford 1899, Section C3 (1900),
369-379; 'Some experiments on denudation in fresh and salt water', ibid, 731-732
[Also published in the proceedings of the 8th International Geological Congress,
Paris 1901, and enlarged in the Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 24A
(1902), 21-32.]; 'The circulation of salt and geological time', Chemical News 83
(1901), 301-303; 'The circulation of salt and geological time', Geological Magazine,
New Series, 8 (1901), 354-350; and Birth-time of the World and Other Scientific
Essays (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1915). In 1930 in Surface History of the Earth,
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