Referee report by J. F. W. Herschel on 'Astronomical Experiment on the Peak of Teneriffe, Carried out under the Sanction of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty' by C. Piazzi Smyth

                                Report on Mr. C. P. Smyth’s acct. of the Expedition to Teneriffe 
by Sir J. F. W. Herschel Sep 7.1857
I have to report in the first place that it has not been 
possible for me to pay earlier attention to the wishes of the 
Council, that I should report on Mr. Smyth’s paper (which I return 
by this day’s Railway) but I have been urgently pressed by another 
work which it was necessary to complete, and being the vacation 
of the Society and the paper having been sent me at the very end of 
the session, it seemed to me that no inconvenience was likely to result 
from a moderate delay -
The papers referred to by me consist of 3 volumes, of which 
three (vols.7.8.9) consist of M.S. and two (6. & 10.) of Photographs,
charts, pictorial illustrations and drawings of the Planets Jupiter 
and Saturn, and portions of the Moon; and of these vol. 10 consists 
entirely of Stereoscopic Photographs of Geological & local interest.
The three vols. of MS. contain an account of the Author’s proceedings 
observations and conclusions, & of the various objects recommended 
to his consideration in the original programme of the Expedition,
- and they refer to five other vols. (1...5) of Journals and the 
reductions of observations recorded in them, which have not 
been sent me, but which I presume, as faithful records, would 
if examined, be found to bear out the summary presented 
in the other volumes. -
As regards the mere question of publication by the Royal 
Society as a part of their transactions, of both the Original 
journals & their reductions, of the volumes of MS. summary,
& of such of the illustrations as may be considered essential 
to a fitting representation of the region itself, the Astronomical 
drawings, & the meteorological & geological features, supposing 
the expense not to exceed what the Society can properly bestow,
or to be defrayed by Government - there cannot be two opinions 
- Mr. Smyth’s Expedition was adopted by the Admiralty as a 
National