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Letter, 'A storm in Wigton' from Thomas Tomlinson to Philip Miller

Reference number: L&P/3/232

Date: 15 November 1756

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Subject: Meteorology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of the effects of a storm at Wigton in Cumberland'

Read 31 March 1757

Reference number
L&P/3/232
Earliest possible date
15 November 1756
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
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Manuscript

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Letter, 'A storm in Wigton' from Thomas Tomlinson to Philip Miller, 15 November 1756, L&P/3/232, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_3_232/letter-a-storm-in-wigton-from-thomas-tomlinson-to-philip-miller, accessed on 12 January 2025

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