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RefNoMM/12/70
LevelItem
TitleLetter from Charles Piazzi Smyth, London, to W H Smyth
Date22 December 1852
DescriptionOn the topics to be discussed at the next meeting of the Southern Telescope Committee. Smyth lists these as: the mounting of the telescope, the site of the observatory and the publication of the results.

Appendix to letter entitled 'Note on a method of Constructing an Equatorial Mounting for a large Reflector'

With illustrations.
Extent23 sides
FormatManuscript
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialLetter printed in <i>Correspondence concerning the Great Melbourne Telescope</i>, Royal Society: London, 1871, pp6-12
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA3757Smyth; Charles Piazzi (1819 - 1900)1819 - 1900
NA5062Smyth; William Henry (1788 - 1865)1788 - 1865
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