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Subject: Meteorology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Observations on the annual evaporation at Liverpool in Lancashire; and on evaporation considered as a test of the moisture or dryness of the atmosphere'

Read 13 February 1777

Reference number
L&P/6/225
Earliest possible date
21 November 1776
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
16 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Matthew Dobson

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Matthew Dobson, Paper, 'Annual evaporation in Liverpool' by Matthew Dobson, 21 November 1776, L&P/6/225, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_6_225/paper-annual-evaporation-in-liverpool-by-matthew-dobson, accessed on 18 March 2025

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