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Addington shares an extract of a letter from Viscount Palmerston, dated 25 January 1850, sharing observations on the 'astronomic phenomenon' of a shower of aerolites which fell in Tripoli [Libya].

Subject: Astronomy / Meteorology

Received 28 February 1850. Read 16 May 1850.

Written by Addington at the Foreign Office [London].

This letter was published in full in volume 5 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as '[Letter from Mr. Addington to the Secretary of the Royal Society]'.

Reference number
AP/32/17
Earliest possible date
20 March 1850
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
5 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Letter, regarding a shower of aerolites from H W Addington to the Secretary of the Royal Society, 20 March 1850, AP/32/17, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_32_17/letter-regarding-a-shower-of-aerolites-from-h-w-addington-to-the-secretary-of-the-royal-society, accessed on 16 February 2025

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