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Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. It is a 'work of considerable labour'.

Subject: Astronomy

[Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1870].

Reference number
RR/7/64
Earliest possible date
04 July 1870
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

Archibald Smith

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Archibald Smith, Referee's report by Archibald Smith, on a paper 'Contributions to terrestrial magnetism - No. XII. The magnetic survey of the British Islands, reduced to the epoch 1842·5' by Edward Sabine, 04 July 1870, RR/7/64, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_7_64/referees-report-by-archibald-smith-on-a-paper-contributions-to-terrestrial-magnetism-no-xii-the-magnetic-survey-of-the-british-islands-reduced-to-the-epoch-18425-by-edward-sabine, accessed on 16 November 2025

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