Paper, 'On the meteorology of the Lake District of Cumberland and Westmoreland [Westmorland] including the results of experiments on the fall of rain at various heights, up to 3166 feet above the sea level' by John Fletcher Miller
Reference number: PT/35/12
Date: 06 February 1849
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Subject: Meteorology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the meteorology of the Lake District of Cumberland and Westmoreland; including the results of experiments on the fall of rain at various heights, up to 3166 feet above the sea level'.
Written by Miller at the observatory in Whitehaven [Cumbria]. Communicated by Lt Colonel [Edward] Sabine. Received by the Royal Society on 19 February 1849. Read 19 April 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/35/12
- Earliest possible date
- 06 February 1849
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- 15 pages
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John Fletcher Miller, Paper, 'On the meteorology of the Lake District of Cumberland and Westmoreland [Westmorland] including the results of experiments on the fall of rain at various heights, up to 3166 feet above the sea level' by John Fletcher Miller, 06 February 1849, PT/35/12, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_35_12/paper-on-the-meteorology-of-the-lake-district-of-cumberland-and-westmoreland-westmorland-including-the-results-of-experiments-on-the-fall-of-rain-at-various-heights-up-to-3166-feet-above-the-sea-level-by-john-fletcher-miller, accessed on 13 July 2025
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Manuscripts of papers published in Philosophical Transactions, 1849
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