Record

RefNoRR/3/254
LevelItem
TitleReferee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'Astronomical experiment on the peak of Teneriffe, carried out under the sanction of the lords commissioners of the admiralty' by Charles Piazzi Smyth
Date2 February 1858
DescriptionSuggests the observations be inserted into volume eight of the report: Report on the Teneriffe astronomical experiment of 1856, addressed to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.

Subject: Astronomy

[Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1858].
Extent3p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionLetter on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1858.0025
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Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8035Airy; Sir; George Biddell (1801 - 1892); astronomer and mathematician1801 - 1892
NA3757Smyth; Charles Piazzi (1819 - 1900)1819 - 1900
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