| Reference number | RR/1/191 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On the construction and use of single achromatic eye-pieces, and their superiority to the double eye-piece of Huyghens' by Joseph Bancroft Reade |
| Date | 25 February 1840 |
| Description | Not recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, as it is a paper of 'vague discussion, without anything very new in principle'.
Subject: Optometry
[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1837-1843]. |
| Extent | 4p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| Physical description | Letter on paper |
| Access status | Open |
| Related material | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1837.0089 |
| Related records in the catalogue | RR/1/192 |
| AP/23/39 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA8035 | Airy; Sir; George Biddell (1801 - 1892); astronomer and mathematician | 1801 - 1892 |
| NA2965 | Reade; Joseph Bancroft (1801 - 1870) | 1801 - 1870 |