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Paper, 'Meteorological register kept in 1790 at Lyndon' by Thomas Barker

Reference number: L&P/9/208

Date: 1790

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Subejct: Meteorology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Abstract of a register of the barometer, thermometer, and rain, at Lyndon in Rutland; by Thomas Barker, Esq. with the rain in Surrey and Hampshire; for the year 1790'

Read 2 June 1791

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L&P/9/208
Earliest possible date
1790
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Ink on paper
Page extent
2 pages
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Manuscript

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Paper, 'Meteorological register kept in 1790 at Lyndon' by Thomas Barker, 1790, L&P/9/208, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_9_208/paper-meteorological-register-kept-in-1790-at-lyndon-by-thomas-barker, accessed on 12 May 2025

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