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Not recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions'. Recommended for abstraction in the Proceedings instead. Suggestions for improvement (and or) alteration made.

Subject: Astronomy

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1858].

Reference number
RR/3/255
Earliest possible date
05 March 1858
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

Charles Robert Darwin

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Charles Robert Darwin, Referee's report by Charles Robert Darwin 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, 05 March 1858, RR/3/255, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_3_255/referees-report-by-charles-robert-darwin-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, accessed on 07 February 2025

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