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Subject: Meteorology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of the Harmattan, a singular African wind'

Read 7 December 1780

Reference number
L&P/7/176
Earliest possible date
01 March 1780
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
25 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Matthew Dobson

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Matthew Dobson, Paper, 'Account of the Harmattan, a singular African wind' by Matthew Dobson, 01 March 1780, L&P/7/176, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_7_176/paper-account-of-the-harmattan-a-singular-african-wind-by-matthew-dobson, accessed on 08 September 2024

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