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- table showing observations from Coventry, Warwickshire, by Henry Beighton, and Upminster, Essex by William Derham
- table showing the strength of winds and the weather from the first of the month in 1715 and 1716 from Harvard College in Cambridge, New England by Thomas Robie and from Upminster by William Derham
- comments about these results
- observations of the eclipse of the moon on 28 June 1721
Read to the Royal Society on 11 November 1731

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RBO/16/21
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1731
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15 pages
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Manuscript

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Several meteorological observations with comments by William Derham, 1731, RBO/16/21, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_16_21/several-meteorological-observations-with-comments-by-william-derham, accessed on 13 June 2026

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