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Paper, 'On the temperature of the springs, wells and rivers of India and Egypt, and of the sea and table-lands within the tropics, with a few remarks on Mr Boussingault's mode of ascertaining the mean temperature of equinoctial regions' by Capt [Thomas John] Newbold

Reference number: PT/29/1

Date: 1842

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Letter from Newbold regarding this paper as well as observations published as part of paper found at PT/29/1i.

Subject: Geodesy

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the temperature of the springs, wells and rivers of India and Egypt, and of the sea and table-lands within the tropics'.

Received by the Royal Society on 1 January 1842. Read 22 February 1844.

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 5, 1851.

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PT/29/1
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1842
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20 pages
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Thomas John Newbold

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Thomas John Newbold, Paper, 'On the temperature of the springs, wells and rivers of India and Egypt, and of the sea and table-lands within the tropics, with a few remarks on Mr Boussingault's mode of ascertaining the mean temperature of equinoctial regions' by Capt [Thomas John] Newbold, 1842, PT/29/1, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_29_1/paper-on-the-temperature-of-the-springs-wells-and-rivers-of-india-and-egypt-and-of-the-sea-and-table-lands-within-the-tropics-with-a-few-remarks-on-mr-boussingaults-mode-of-ascertaining-the-mean-temperature-of-equinoctial-regions-by-capt-thomas-john-newbold, accessed on 20 July 2026

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