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Paper, 'Of an extraordinary storm in Tyrone' by William Henry

Reference number: L&P/2/396

Date: 21 October 1752

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Subject: Meteorology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account an extraordinary streams of wind, which shot thro' part of the parishes of Termonomungan and Urney, in the county of Tyrone, on Wednesday October 11, 1752. By Wm. Henry, D. D. Rector of the Parish of Urney: Communicated by the right honourable the Lord Cadogan, F. R. S'

Read 11 January 1753

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L&P/2/396
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21 October 1752
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William Henry, Paper, 'Of an extraordinary storm in Tyrone' by William Henry, 21 October 1752, L&P/2/396, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_396/paper-of-an-extraordinary-storm-in-tyrone-by-william-henry, accessed on 10 February 2026

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