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Letter, 'Observations of the marine barometer on the coasts of New Holland and New South Wales' from Matthew Flinders to Joseph Banks

Reference number: L&P/12/127

Date: 19 August 1805

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Subject: Meteorology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Observations upon the marine barometer, made during the examination of the coasts of New Holland and New South Wales, in the years 1801, 1802, and 1803'

Read 27 March 1806

Reference number
L&P/12/127
Earliest possible date
19 August 1805
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
16 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Letter, 'Observations of the marine barometer on the coasts of New Holland and New South Wales' from Matthew Flinders to Joseph Banks, 19 August 1805, L&P/12/127, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_12_127/letter-observations-of-the-marine-barometer-on-the-coasts-of-new-holland-and-new-south-wales-from-matthew-flinders-to-joseph-banks, accessed on 15 July 2026

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