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Paper, 'On the temperature of man within the tropics' by John Davy

Reference number: PT/38/8

Date: 14 February 1850

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Also includes postscript by Davy dated 4 May 1850.

Subject: Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the temperature of man within the tropics'.

Written by Davy at Lasketh How, Ambleside [Cumbria]. Received by the Royal Society on 26 February 1850. Read 2 May 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/38/8
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14 February 1850
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Ink on paper
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61 pages
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Manuscript

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John Davy

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John Davy, Paper, 'On the temperature of man within the tropics' by John Davy, 14 February 1850, PT/38/8, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_38_8/paper-on-the-temperature-of-man-within-the-tropics-by-john-davy, accessed on 16 November 2025

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