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Subject: Meteorology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the reduction of the thermometrical observations made the apartments the Royal Society, from the years 1774 to 1781, and from the years 1787 to 1843'.

Communicated by John Lee. Received by the Royal Society on 21 February 1849. Read 3 May 1849.

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/35/11
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1849
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Ink on paper
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21 pages
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Manuscript

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James Glaisher

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James Glaisher, Paper, 'On the reduction of the thermometrical observations made at the apartments of the Royal Society, from the years 1774 to 1781, and from the years 1787 to 1843' by James Glaisher, 1849, PT/35/11, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_35_11/paper-on-the-reduction-of-the-thermometrical-observations-made-at-the-apartments-of-the-royal-society-from-the-years-1774-to-1781-and-from-the-years-1787-to-1843-by-james-glaisher, accessed on 17 January 2026

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