Letter, 'Of the cold in Cambridge' from Richard Watson to Matthew Maty
Reference number: L&P/5/229
Date: 21 March 1771
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Subject: Meteorology
Published in Philosophical Transsctions, as 'Some remarks on the effects of the late cold in February last: in a letter from the Rev. R. Watson, Fellow of Trinity College, and Professor of Chemistry at Cambridge, to Mathew Maty, M.D. Sec. R. S'
Read 11 April 1771
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- L&P/5/229
- Earliest possible date
- 21 March 1771
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- Ink on paper
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- 8 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Richard Watson, Letter, 'Of the cold in Cambridge' from Richard Watson to Matthew Maty, 21 March 1771, L&P/5/229, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_229/letter-of-the-cold-in-cambridge-from-richard-watson-to-matthew-maty, accessed on 14 June 2025
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