From:
John Pye Smith
To:
Samuel Hunter Christie
Date:
24 January 1840
Source of text:
MM/22/18, Royal Society
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Royal Society
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Recommends printing all three papers sent to JH—G. B. Airy's on spectral bands, [Robert] Hunt's on influence of iodine on photographic papers, and that by Lord Oxmantown [William Parsons] on large reflecting telescopes.
Recommends awarding Royal Medal to [William Parsons] Lord Oxmantown for paper on large reflecting telescopes.
Reports observing on 17 March a long, thin cloudy streak that moved with the stars. [P.S. of 18 March concludes the object is a comet [Great Comet of 1843].]
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