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Paper, 'On the measurement of Snowdon by the thermometrical barometer' by Rev F J H [Francis John Hyde] Wollaston

Reference number: PT/14/23

Date: 01 June 1820

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Subject: Geology / Geography

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the measurement of Snowdon, by the thermometrical barometer'.

Written by Wollaston in S [South] Weald. Read 29 June 1820.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 2, 1833.

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PT/14/23
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01 June 1820
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8 pages
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Manuscript

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Francis John Hyde Wollaston

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Francis John Hyde Wollaston, Paper, 'On the measurement of Snowdon by the thermometrical barometer' by Rev F J H [Francis John Hyde] Wollaston, 01 June 1820, PT/14/23, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_14_23/paper-on-the-measurement-of-snowdon-by-the-thermometrical-barometer-by-rev-f-j-h-francis-john-hyde-wollaston, accessed on 16 September 2024

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