The Sixth International Symposium on Earth Tides was held in France at the University of Strasbourg, September 15–20, 1969. It was organized by the Permanent Commission on Earth Tides, International Association of Geodesy, IUGG.Although many aspects of the meetings were comparable to previous earth tide symposia in that the papers again dealt primarily with instrumentation and data analysis, there was a greater degree of open‐mindedness and willingness to discuss new procedures that added considerably to the value of the meeti