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Paper, 'Discussion of meteorological oservations taken in India at various heights embracing those at Dodabetta on the Neelgherry Mountains at 8640 feet above the level of the sea' by W H [William Henry] Sykes

Reference number: PT/38/1

Date: 1850

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Refers to Doddabetta in the Nilgiri Mountains of Tamil Nadu, India.

Subject: Meteorology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Discussion of meteorological observations taken in India, at various heights, embracing those at Dodabetta on the Neelgherry Mountains, at 8640 feet above the level of the sea'.

Received by the Royal Society on 12 January 1850. Read 21 March 1850.

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/38/1
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1850
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William Henry Sykes, Paper, 'Discussion of meteorological oservations taken in India at various heights embracing those at Dodabetta on the Neelgherry Mountains at 8640 feet above the level of the sea' by W H [William Henry] Sykes, 1850, PT/38/1, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_38_1/paper-discussion-of-meteorological-oservations-taken-in-india-at-various-heights-embracing-those-at-dodabetta-on-the-neelgherry-mountains-at-8640-feet-above-the-level-of-the-sea-by-w-h-william-henry-sykes, accessed on 17 April 2026

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