From:
Charles Piazzi Smyth
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
22 December 1852
Source of text:
MM/12/70, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
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Will send JH meridian observations that will be published; asks for his advice on them. Applies to government for an equatorial telescope. Discusses Teneriffe site.
Sends photographs of Great Dragon and the Ice Cavern in Teneriffe. Notes that images are finer when glass plates are used.
Sends atmospheric observations to JH before transmission to Admiralty.
A. G. Melville will start Meteorological Observatory at Queen's College, Galway. CPS discusses JH article on plans for building an ice-making machine.