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The Tuck Fellowship within the IWWWFB has been established in honour Professor E. O. Tuck, see http://www.iwwwfb.org/tuck.htm. A donation form is available at http://www.iwwwfb.org/tuck.htm JG Date posted 2 APR 2009

The MIT Press released a new edition of MARINE HYDRODYNAMICS written by Prof.J.N. Newman. This book is referred to as the `40th Anniversary Edition'.
The book has updated with some corrections and more references, and three exciting aspects of this are:
(1) John Grue has contributed a Foreword
(2) The new edition is published as a paperback, with a corresponding reduction in the price
(3) It also will be available as an Open Access E-book in pdf format, which anyone can download without charge from the press website: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/marine-hydrodynamics-40th-anniversary-edition