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Paper, 'Meteorological journal kept at Fort St George on the Coromandel Coast 1777-8' by William Roxburgh

Reference number: L&P/7/136

Date: 1779

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Subject: Meteorology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A continuation of a meteorological diary, kept at Fort St. George, on the coast of Coromandel'

Read 20 January 1780

Reference number
L&P/7/136
Earliest possible date
1779
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
3 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'Meteorological journal kept at Fort St George on the Coromandel Coast 1777-8' by William Roxburgh, 1779, L&P/7/136, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_7_136/paper-meteorological-journal-kept-at-fort-st-george-on-the-coromandel-coast-1777-8-by-william-roxburgh, accessed on 21 July 2026

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