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Paper, 'Meteorological observations at Lyndon, 1779' by Thomas Barker

Reference number: L&P/7/161

Date: 1780

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Subject: Meteorology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Abstract of a register of the barometer, thermometer, and rain, at Lyndon, in Rutland, 1779'

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L&P/7/161
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1780
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Paper, 'Meteorological observations at Lyndon, 1779' by Thomas Barker, 1780, L&P/7/161, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_7_161/paper-meteorological-observations-at-lyndon-1779-by-thomas-barker, accessed on 24 January 2026

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