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Paper, 'A meteorological diary kept at Fort St George in the East Indies' by William Roxburgh

Reference number: L&P/7/13

Date: 1777

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Subject: Meteorology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A meteorological diary, &c. kept at Fort St. George in the East Indies'

Read 29 January 1778

Reference number
L&P/7/13
Earliest possible date
1777
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Ink on paper
Page extent
16 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'A meteorological diary kept at Fort St George in the East Indies' by William Roxburgh, 1777, L&P/7/13, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_7_13/paper-a-meteorological-diary-kept-at-fort-st-george-in-the-east-indies-by-william-roxburgh, accessed on 15 March 2026

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