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Refers to Benares, a former kingdom and princely state in modern-day Uttar Pradesh, India. Six manuscript pages and two graphs showing barometric pressure versus temperature. The plates were not printed with the paper.

Subject: Meteorology

Published in volume 118 of Philosophical Transactions as 'Abstract of a meteorological journal kept at Benares during the years 1824, 1825, and 1826'.

Communicated by Peter Mark Roget. Read 25 January 1828.

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/18/19
Earliest possible date
1828
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Ink on paper
Page extent
8 pages
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Manuscript

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James Prinsep

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James Prinsep, Paper, 'Abstract of a meteorological journal kept at Benares [Varanasi, India] during the years 1824, 1825, and 1826' by James Prinsep, 1828, PT/18/19, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_18_19/paper-abstract-of-a-meteorological-journal-kept-at-benares-varanasi-india-during-the-years-1824-1825-and-1826-by-james-prinsep, accessed on 22 January 2025

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