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Letter, 'Of the heat in Bengal' from William Martin to Emanuel Mendez da Costa

Reference number: L&P/4/388

Date: 30 April 1766

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Subject: Meteorology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Letter to Mr. Dacosta, Librarian, &c. to the Royal Society, from Mr. William Martin; containing an extract of a letter from his son at Bengal, on the heat of the climate'

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L&P/4/388
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30 April 1766
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Ink on paper
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6 pages
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Manuscript

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Letter, 'Of the heat in Bengal' from William Martin to Emanuel Mendez da Costa, 30 April 1766, L&P/4/388, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_388/letter-of-the-heat-in-bengal-from-william-martin-to-emanuel-mendez-da-costa, accessed on 19 July 2025

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