Unpublished paper, 'On the meteorology of the English Lake District' by John Fletcher Miller
Reference number: AP/34/17
Date: 16 February 1853
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Miller shares meteorological observations and data including details of rainfall in Cumbria and Westmoreland in 1852, the temperature of Whitehaven and monthly hygrometrical observations.
Subject: Meteorology
Received 22 February 1853. Read 3 March 1853.
Written by Miller at Whitehaven Observatory.
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 6 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'On the meteorology of the English Lake District (Sixth paper, for 1852)'.
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- AP/34/17
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- 16 February 1853
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- 20 pages
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- Manuscript
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John Fletcher Miller, Unpublished paper, 'On the meteorology of the English Lake District' by John Fletcher Miller, 16 February 1853, AP/34/17, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_34_17/unpublished-paper-on-the-meteorology-of-the-english-lake-district-by-john-fletcher-miller, accessed on 11 July 2025
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On the meteorology of the English Lake District (Sixth paper, for 1852) External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1854
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1850.0101
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Unpublished paper, 'On the meteorology of the English Lake District, including the results of experiments on the fall of rain at various heights up to 3166 feet above the sea level' by John Fletcher Miller
Creator: John Fletcher Miller Reference number: AP/33/18
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Archived papers: volume 34, scientific papers submitted the Royal Society unpublished or abstracted, 1852-1854
1852-1854 Reference number: AP/34
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