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Letter, 'Flagstaff struck by lightning' from Charles Blagden to Joseph Banks

Reference number: L&P/7/183

Date: 22 November 1780

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Subject: Meteorology

Read 11 January 1781

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L&P/7/183
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22 November 1780
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Ink on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Charles Blagden

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Charles Blagden, Letter, 'Flagstaff struck by lightning' from Charles Blagden to Joseph Banks, 22 November 1780, L&P/7/183, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_7_183/letter-flagstaff-struck-by-lightning-from-charles-blagden-to-joseph-banks, accessed on 09 March 2026

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