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Paper, 'Rain at Holne near Manchester and at Barrowby near Leeds for some years' by George Lloyd

Reference number: L&P/7/23

Date: 1778

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Subject: Meteorology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Journal of the quantity of rain that fell at Holme, near Manchester, from 1765 to 1769; and at Barrowby, near Leeds, from 1772 to 1777'

Read 26 February 1778

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L&P/7/23
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1778
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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George Lloyd

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George Lloyd, Paper, 'Rain at Holne near Manchester and at Barrowby near Leeds for some years' by George Lloyd, 1778, L&P/7/23, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_7_23/paper-rain-at-holne-near-manchester-and-at-barrowby-near-leeds-for-some-years-by-george-lloyd, accessed on 11 July 2026

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