| RefNo | MC/4/218 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Letter from [Charles] Piazzi Smyth, Royal Observatory Edinburgh, to [Charles Richard] Weld, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society |
| Date | 24 February 1848 |
| Description | Responding to Weld's explanation and justification of his refusal to accept Smyth's box of volumes of the Edinburgh Astronomical Observations. Smyth refutes Weld's arguments regarding the Royal Society's relationship to the Edinburgh Observatory via the Royal Society Edinburgh. He additionally lays out the reasons for his transmission of the Edinburgh Observations.
[The letter is over two papers, the second of which is labelled within the volume as MC/4/218a.] |
| Extent | 6p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedRecord | MC/4/210 |
| MS/426/313 |
| MS/426/315 |
| MC/4/220 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA3757 | Smyth; Charles Piazzi (1819 - 1900) | 1819 - 1900 |