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Letter, 'Journal of the weather at Senegambia' from J F Schotte to Joseph Banks

Reference number: L&P/7/162

Date: 18 February 1780

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Subject: Meteorology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Journal of the weather at Senegambia [Senegal and the Gambia], during the prevalence of a very fatal putrid disorder, with remarks on that country'

Read 11 May 1780

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L&P/7/162
Earliest possible date
18 February 1780
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Ink on paper
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26 pages
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Manuscript

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Letter, 'Journal of the weather at Senegambia' from J F Schotte to Joseph Banks, 18 February 1780, L&P/7/162, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_7_162/letter-journal-of-the-weather-at-senegambia-from-j-f-schotte-to-joseph-banks, accessed on 11 November 2025

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