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Paper, 'Meteorological register for 1768 at the Royal Hospital Plymouth' by William Farr

Reference number: L&P/5/89

Date: 1768

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Subject: Meteorology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Abstract from a meteorological register kept at the Royal hospital near Plymouth, during the year 1768'

Read 20 April 1769

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L&P/5/89
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1768
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Ink on paper
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3 pages
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Manuscript

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William Farr

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William Farr, Paper, 'Meteorological register for 1768 at the Royal Hospital Plymouth' by William Farr, 1768, L&P/5/89, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_89/paper-meteorological-register-for-1768-at-the-royal-hospital-plymouth-by-william-farr, accessed on 22 January 2025

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