William Henry Smyth
1788 - 1865
- Born
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21 January 1788
Westminster, England
- Died
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09 September 1865
St John's Lodge, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
- Nationality
- British
- Gender
- Male
- Date of election for Royal Society fellowship
- 15/06/1826
- Relationships
- Father-in-law of Sir William Henry Flower (FRS 1864); father of Charles Piazzi Smyth FRS and Warington Wilkinson Smyth FRS
- Catalogue
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- Wikipedia
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Referee of
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Referee's report by William Henry Smyth, on a paper 'An account of a protracting pocket sextant' by E Bainbridge
Creator: William Henry Smyth Reference number: RR/1/6 -
Referee's report by William Henry Smyth, on a paper 'Planet Esaid’un nouveau catalogue sidéral, avec une réprésentation graphique, et une loi de simple et régulière distribution des étoiles autour du Pole, qui pourra fournir plusieurs avantages à I’ Astronomie pratique' by Joseph Bianchi
Creator: William Henry Smyth Reference number: RR/1/23 -
Referee's report by William Henry Smyth and Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny, on a paper 'Some account of a new volcano in the Mediterranean' by John Davy
Creator: William Henry Smyth, Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny Reference number: RR/1/52 -
Referee's report by William Henry Smyth, on an unnamed paper by Demouville
Creator: William Henry Smyth Reference number: RR/1/55 -
Referee's report by William Henry Smyth, on a paper 'New ideas on electricity, applied to the invention of an earthquake guard' by Pasquale Stanislao Mancini
Creator: William Henry Smyth Reference number: RR/1/160 -
Referee's report by William Henry Smyth, on a paper 'On the mean temperature of the observatory at Highfield House, near Nottingham, from the year 1810 to 1850' by Edward Joseph Lowe
Creator: William Henry Smyth Reference number: RR/2/138
Recipient of
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Unpublished paper, 'De la chaleur du globe' [Paper on the heat of the Earth] by Demouville
Reference number: AP/22/7 -
Unpublished letter, regarding the decimal compass card from James Share to W H [William Henry] Smyth
Creator: James Masters Share Reference number: AP/37/20 -
Extract of letter, from Giuseppe Piazzi to W[illiam] Smyth dated at Naples, Italy
Creator: Giuseppe Piazzi Reference number: HS/13/395 -
Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to William Henry Smyth, dated at Slough
Creator: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/16/237 -
Incomplete letter, from Sir John Herschel to William Henry Smyth, dated at [Collingwood]
Creator: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/16/294 -
Letter, from Sir John Herschel to William Henry Smyth, dated at [Collingwood]
Creator: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/16/302
Most frequently corresponded with
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John Frederick William Herschel
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Giuseppe Piazzi
1 letter -
Robert FitzRoy
1 letter