Reference number | RR/4/244 |
Level | Item |
Title | Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On the effect produced on the deviations of the compass by the length and arrangement of the compass-needles; and on a new mode of correcting the quadrantal deviation' by Archibald Smith and Frederick John Owen Evans |
Date | 17 May 1861 |
Description | Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, although modifications should be made. The paper is 'very valuable'.
Subject: Mathematics
[Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1861]. |
Extent | 4p |
Format | Manuscript |
Physical description | Letter on paper |
Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
Access status | Open |
Related material | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1861.0010 |
Related records in the catalogue | RR/4/245 |
PT/63/9 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | Name | Dates |
NA8035 | Airy; Sir; George Biddell (1801 - 1892); astronomer and mathematician | 1801 - 1892 |
NA1486 | Smith; Archibald (1813 - 1872) | 1813 - 1872 |
NA2166 | Evans; Sir; Frederick John Owen (1815 - 1885) | 1815 - 1885 |