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Letter, 'Of a hurricane at Barbadoes' from Gilbert Blane to John Hunter

Reference number: L&P/7/189

Date: 22 December 1780

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Subject: Meteorology

Read 22 February 1781

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L&P/7/189
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22 December 1780
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Ink on paper
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20 pages
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Manuscript

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Gilbert Blane

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Gilbert Blane, Letter, 'Of a hurricane at Barbadoes' from Gilbert Blane to John Hunter, 22 December 1780, L&P/7/189, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_7_189/letter-of-a-hurricane-at-barbadoes-from-gilbert-blane-to-john-hunter, accessed on 24 January 2025

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