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Paper, 'Meteorological observations at Bristol' by Samuel Farr

Reference number: L&P/7/98

Date: 1779

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Subject: Meteorology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Extract of a meteorological journal for the year 1778, kept at Bristol'

Read 18 March 1778

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L&P/7/98
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1779
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Ink on paper
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5 pages
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Manuscript

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Samuel Farr

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Samuel Farr, Paper, 'Meteorological observations at Bristol' by Samuel Farr, 1779, L&P/7/98, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_7_98/paper-meteorological-observations-at-bristol-by-samuel-farr, accessed on 11 February 2026

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