RefNo | RR/2/6 |
Level | Item |
Title | Referee's report by William Hopkins, on a paper 'On the computation of the effect of the attraction of mountain-masses, as disturbing the apparent astronomical latitude of stations in geodetic surveys' by George Biddell Airy |
Date | 31 January 1855 |
Description | Decided to leave it up to the Committee to decide if the paper should be included in the Philosophical Transactions. Refers to similar measurments undertaken by John Henry Pratt (Archdeacon of Calcutta).
Subject: Physics
[Published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London] |
Extent | 4p |
Format | Manuscript |
PhysicalDescription | Letter on paper |
Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1854.0060 Vol.7 1856 |
RelatedRecord | RR/2/5 |
PT/50/3 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA6316 | Hopkins; William (1793 - 1866) | 1793 - 1866 |
NA8035 | Airy; Sir; George Biddell (1801 - 1892); astronomer and mathematician | 1801 - 1892 |