Paper, 'On a cycle of eighteen years in the mean annual height of the barometer in the climate of London; and on a constant variation of the barometrical mean according to the moon's declination' by Luke Howard
Reference number: PT/25/12
Date: 1841

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Subject: Meteorology / Geodesy
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On a cycle of eighteen years in the mean annual height of the barometer in the climate of London, and on a constant variation of the barometrical mean according to the Moon's declination'.
Received by the Royal Society on 4 February 1841. Read 11 March 1841.
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 4, 1843.
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Luke Howard, Paper, 'On a cycle of eighteen years in the mean annual height of the barometer in the climate of London; and on a constant variation of the barometrical mean according to the moon's declination' by Luke Howard, 1841, PT/25/12, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_25_12/paper-on-a-cycle-of-eighteen-years-in-the-mean-annual-height-of-the-barometer-in-the-climate-of-london-and-on-a-constant-variation-of-the-barometrical-mean-according-to-the-moons-declination-by-luke-howard, accessed on 22 April 2025
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Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper [attributed] 'On a cycle of eighteen years in the mean annual height of the barometer in the climate of London, and on a constant variation of the barometrical mean according to the Moon's declination' by Luke Howard
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Manuscripts of papers published in Philosophical Transactions, 1841
December 1840 - June 1841 Reference number: PT/25
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