Hostname: page-component-745bb68f8f-mzp66 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-01-13T11:40:19.734Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Macdougall-Brisbane Prize

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

Get access

Extract

The Council having awarded the Makdougall-Brisbane Prize, for the biennial period 1879–80, to Professor Piazzi Smyth, Astronomer-Royal for Scotland, for his Memoir, entitled “The Solar Spectrum in 1877–78, with some practical idea of its probable temperature of origination,” published in the Society's Transactions, vol. xxix. p. 285, the Medal was presented to him by the Chairman, with the following remarks:—

The first matter of public business for to-night is to present the Makdougall-Brisbane prize to Professor Piazzi Smyth, Astronomer Royal for Scotland.

Type
Proceedings 1881-82
Information
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 11 , 1882 , pp. 361 - 365
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1882

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)