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Paper, 'On the meteorology of the Lake District of Cumberland and Westmoreland' by John Fletcher Miller

Reference number: PT/35/5

Date: 15 March 1848

Description

15 manuscript pages and one plate containing a map of the lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire.

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 above the earth’s surface, up to 3166 feet above the mean sea level'.

Written by Miller at Whitehaven [Cumbria]. Communicated by Lt Col [Edward] Sabine. Received by the Royal Society on 4 April 1848. Read 18 May 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/35/5
Earliest possible date
15 March 1848
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Ink on paper
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16 pages
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Manuscript

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John Fletcher Miller

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John Fletcher Miller, Paper, 'On the meteorology of the Lake District of Cumberland and Westmoreland' by John Fletcher Miller, 15 March 1848, PT/35/5, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_35_5/paper-on-the-meteorology-of-the-lake-district-of-cumberland-and-westmoreland-by-john-fletcher-miller, accessed on 17 February 2026

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