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Subejct: Meteorology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of a remarkable tide at Bristol: In a letter to the Rev. Thomas Birch, D.D. Secret. R. S. from the Rev. Josiah Tucker, D.D. Dean of Gloucester'

Read 23 February 1764

Reference number
L&P/4/193
Earliest possible date
1764
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Letter, 'Of an extraordinary tide at Bristol' from Josiah Tucker to Thomas Birch, 1764, L&P/4/193, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_193/letter-of-an-extraordinary-tide-at-bristol-from-josiah-tucker-to-thomas-birch, accessed on 20 July 2025

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