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Paper, 'Observations of Dr Robert Moray, Sir P [Paul] Neil and Dr [Christopher] Wren, made by them in their late excursion into the country' by Robert Moray

Reference number: CLP/6/17

Date: 1664

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Moray describes the tides observed between Faringdon and Abbington [Abingdon] on 19 October 1664.

Subject: Hydrography

Read to the Royal Society on 9 November 1664.

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CLP/6/17
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1664
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Christopher Wren

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Christopher Wren, Paper, 'Observations of Dr Robert Moray, Sir P [Paul] Neil and Dr [Christopher] Wren, made by them in their late excursion into the country' by Robert Moray, 1664, CLP/6/17, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_6_17/paper-observations-of-dr-robert-moray-sir-p-paul-neil-and-dr-christopher-wren-made-by-them-in-their-late-excursion-into-the-country-by-robert-moray, accessed on 26 March 2025

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