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This treatise is a classic in the experimental part of our subject. Here for the first time 
direct observations of the motion of the fluid particles in wave motions are described A great 
variety of different cases of wave motion are discussed; and in particular, standing waves in 
a canal, of which seiches are a particular example. 
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This memoir was really the first after Lacranex that dealt fully and effectively with the 
problem of stationary waves in a canal of uniform depth (h) and length (7). In Merran’s paper 
the formula T= ,/{zl/g tanh (zh//)} appears for the first time in connection with stationary 
waves. Its relation to the formula of LapLacz, Caucuy, and Porsson for the velocity of propa- 
gation is obvious. Unfortunately the memoir attracted no attention when it was published, and 
was forgotten until it was reproduced by the author’s grandnephew, Von per Mtut, Math. Ann., 
xxvill. 575, 1885. Meanwhile Mrrran’s results had been rediscovered by other mathematicians. 
Russeti, Joun Scorr. His beautiful experiments on canal waves, described in the B.A. Reports 
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