Referee report by C. R. Darwin on 'Astronomical Experiment on the Peak of Teneriffe, Carried out under the Sanction of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty' by C. Piazzi Smyth
Down, Bromley, Kent
March 5 1858
Dear Sir
Prof. Smyth's observations on the Geology and Natural History of Teneriffe do not appear to me precise enough, owing no doubt to the author's attention having been directed to other objects,
for publication in the Philosophical Transactions.
For instance in the remarks on “Craters of
Elevation “, masses of rock & subordinate craters
are spoken of as of submarine origin, without
any sort of evidence having been advanced:
the continuity of not one single sheet
of lava in the ancient cliffs of the great
crater seems to have been noticed; the
proportional width of the radial valleys
to the whole crater is not noticed, &c.;
and even the remarks on the subsided
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- Author
- Charles Piazzi Smyth
- Reference
- RR/3/255
- Series
- RR
- Date
- 1856
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Referee report by C. R. Darwin 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/3/255
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