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Letter, from Thomas Nettleton [to the Royal Society]

Reference number: EL/N1/100

Date: 01 January 1726

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Gives observations of the weather for January with details about the barometer; concerning some disused accounts of inoculation with a note that eight people had been inoculated at Wakefield but that the practice meets with objections from the clergy

Reference number
EL/N1/100
Earliest possible date
01 January 1726
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

Thomas Nettleton

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Thomas Nettleton, Letter, from Thomas Nettleton [to the Royal Society], 01 January 1726, EL/N1/100, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_n1_100/letter-from-thomas-nettleton-to-the-royal-society, accessed on 09 November 2024

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