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Paper, register of the weather at Upminster, Essex for 1701 by William Derham

Reference number: CLP/5/3

Date: 31 March 1703

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Tables for each month record date, overall weather conditions, the wind, clouds, barometric and thermometric readings and rainfall

Subject: Meteorology

Read to the Royal Society on 31 March 1703

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of the rain which fell every year at Upminster in Essex, the last eighteen years, with remarks upon that of the year 1714. By W. Derham, F. R. S. Also a comparison of what has been observed of that kind at Paris, by M. De la Hire'

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CLP/5/3
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31 March 1703
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Ink on paper
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8 pages
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Manuscript

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William Derham

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William Derham, Paper, register of the weather at Upminster, Essex for 1701 by William Derham, 31 March 1703, CLP/5/3, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_5_3/paper-register-of-the-weather-at-upminster-essex-for-1701-by-william-derham, accessed on 17 March 2026

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