Letter, 'Of measuring the velocity of the wind' from Alexander Bryce to James Douglas
Reference number: L&P/4/338
Date: 13 May 1766
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Subject: Meteorology
Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A letter to the President of the Royal Society, containing a new manner of measuring the velocity of wind, and an experiment to ascertain to what quantity of water a fall of snow is equal'
Read 19 June 1766
- Reference number
- L&P/4/338
- Earliest possible date
- 13 May 1766
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 4 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Letter, 'Of measuring the velocity of the wind' from Alexander Bryce to James Douglas, 13 May 1766, L&P/4/338, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_338/letter-of-measuring-the-velocity-of-the-wind-from-alexander-bryce-to-james-douglas, accessed on 13 May 2025
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