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Paper, 'Experiments made in North Wales to learn the quantities of rain falling at different heights' by Daines Barrington

Reference number: L&P/5/244

Date: 24 December 1770

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Subject: Meteorology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Letter from the Hon. Daines Barrington, F. R. S. to William Heberden, M. D. F. R. S. giving an account of some experiments made in North Wales, to ascertain the different quantities of rain, which fell in the same time, at different heights'

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L&P/5/244
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24 December 1770
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Daines Barrington

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Daines Barrington, Paper, 'Experiments made in North Wales to learn the quantities of rain falling at different heights' by Daines Barrington, 24 December 1770, L&P/5/244, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_244/paper-experiments-made-in-north-wales-to-learn-the-quantities-of-rain-falling-at-different-heights-by-daines-barrington, accessed on 14 December 2024

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