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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/40/7

Date: 06 February 1851

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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.—Fourth paper, for the year 1850'.

Written by Miller at the Observatory in Whitehaven [Cumbria]. Received by the Royal Society on 21 February 1851. Read 13 March 1851.

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 6, 1854.

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PT/40/7
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06 February 1851
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14 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 1851, PT/40/7, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_40_7/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 04 November 2024

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