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The Royal Society: Science in the Making

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0 letters from John Chamberlayne; 3 letters from Ralph Thoresby

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Thoresby had received an account of a thunder and lightning storm at Dublin which heated the sea water and killed the fish Read to the Royal Society on 30 October 1712

22 August 1712 Sender: Ralph Thoresby , Ralph Thoresby Reference number: EL/T/61

Concerning a thunderstorm in Dublin which killed the fish in the sea Read to the Royal Society on 11 December 1712

06 December 1712 Sender: Ralph Thoresby , Ralph Thoresby Reference number: EL/T/62
1715

Details of the damage caused by a storm in York Read to the Royal Society on 3 March 1715

05 February 1715 Sender: Ralph Thoresby , Ralph Thoresby Reference number: EL/T/64