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Paper, 'On the corrections to be applied to the monthly mean of meteorological observations taken at any hour, to convert them into mean monthly values' by James Glaisher

Reference number: PT/34/8

Date: 10 February 1848

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Subject: Meteorology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the corrections to be applied to the monthly means of meteorological observations taken at any hour, to convert them into mean monthly values'.

Written by Glaisher in Greenwich. Communicated by G B [George Biddell] Airy. Received by the Royal Society on 23 February 1848. Read 2 March 1848.

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/34/8
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10 February 1848
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31 pages
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James Glaisher

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James Glaisher, Paper, 'On the corrections to be applied to the monthly mean of meteorological observations taken at any hour, to convert them into mean monthly values' by James Glaisher, 10 February 1848, PT/34/8, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_34_8/paper-on-the-corrections-to-be-applied-to-the-monthly-mean-of-meteorological-observations-taken-at-any-hour-to-convert-them-into-mean-monthly-values-by-james-glaisher, accessed on 11 December 2025

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