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Paper, 'On the relation of the air and evaporation temperatures, to the temperature of the dew point, as determined by Mr Glaisher's hygrometrical tables, founded on the factors deduced from the six hourly observations made at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich' by John Fletcher Miller

Reference number: PT/40/6

Date: 20 October 1849

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Subject: Meteorology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the relation of the air and evaporation temperatures to the temperature of the dew-point, as determined by Mr. Glaisher’s hygrometrical tables, founded on the factors deduced from the six-hourly observations made at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich'.

Written by Miller at the Observatory, Whitehaven [Cumbria]. Communicated by Lt Col [Edward] Sabine. Received by the Royal Society on 14 March 1850. Read 30 May 1850.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 5, 1851.

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PT/40/6
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20 October 1849
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John Fletcher Miller, Paper, 'On the relation of the air and evaporation temperatures, to the temperature of the dew point, as determined by Mr Glaisher's hygrometrical tables, founded on the factors deduced from the six hourly observations made at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich' by John Fletcher Miller, 20 October 1849, PT/40/6, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_40_6/paper-on-the-relation-of-the-air-and-evaporation-temperatures-to-the-temperature-of-the-dew-point-as-determined-by-mr-glaishers-hygrometrical-tables-founded-on-the-factors-deduced-from-the-six-hourly-observations-made-at-the-royal-observatory-greenwich-by-john-fletcher-miller, accessed on 13 October 2024

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