Letter, regarding a shower of aerolites from H W Addington to the Secretary of the Royal Society
Reference number: AP/32/17
Date: 20 March 1850

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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]'.
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- AP/32/17
- Earliest possible date
- 20 March 1850
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- 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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Date: 31st December 1851
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1843.0230
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Archived papers: volume 32, scientific papers submitted the Royal Society unpublished or abstracted, 1849-1850
1849-1850 Reference number: AP/32
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