Referee report by James Challis on 'Astronomical Experiment on the Peak of Teneriffe, Carried out under the Sanction of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty' by C. Piazzi Smyth
at great elevations.
On the merits of those parts of
the Paper which relate to Geology
& Botany, I do not profess to
give an opinion, but I could not
avoid noticing the great advantage
derived from photography in giving
exactness of form and of linear
proportions to the representation of
geological and botanical objects.
Although I approve of the
contents of the Paper generally, I
think that in some particulars
it requires alteration. I have
made a pencil note opposite to
p. 24 of Vol. 8, where it ap-
pears to me that an inference
drawn from facts relating to the
spectrum is incorrectly stated. The
character of the Paper is in some
parts too theoretical and argu-
mentative, and would be im-
proved by partaking more of
the nature of a Report. It was hardly
possible that a residence of two
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- Author
- Charles Piazzi Smyth
- Reference
- RR/3/252
- Series
- RR
- Date
- 1856
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Referee report by James Challis on 'Astronomical Experiment on the Peak of Teneriffe, Carried out under the Sanction of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty' by C. Piazzi Smyth, 1856. From The Royal Society, RR/3/252
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