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Subject: Meteorology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A letter from the Reverend Henry Miles, D. D. F. R. S. to Mr. John Canton, F. R. S. concerning the late hard weather'

Read 28 February 1754

Reference number
L&P/2/482
Earliest possible date
28 February 1754
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Ink on paper
Page extent
3 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Henry Miles

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Henry Miles, Letter, 'Of the late hard weather' from Henry Miles to John Canton, 28 February 1754, L&P/2/482, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_482/letter-of-the-late-hard-weather-from-henry-miles-to-john-canton, accessed on 13 May 2026

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