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Unpublished paper, 'On low fogs and stationary clouds' by William Kelly

Reference number: AP/21/4

Date: 1837

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Kelly identifies the circumstances which influence the formation of low fogs, and observes similarities between the causes that produce fogs and those that produce clouds. He suggests that fogs and clouds are differentiated by their positions in the atmosphere. Annotated in pencil and ink throughout.

Subject: Meteorology

Received 7 November 1837. Read 27 November 1837. Communicated by Captain [Francis] Beaufort.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 3 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'On low fogs and stationary clouds'.

Reference number
AP/21/4
Earliest possible date
1837
Physical description
Ink and graphite pencil on paper
Page extent
27 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Unpublished paper, 'On low fogs and stationary clouds' by William Kelly, 1837, AP/21/4, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_21_4/unpublished-paper-on-low-fogs-and-stationary-clouds-by-william-kelly, accessed on 09 July 2025

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