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Letter from George Howard Darwin, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'Some anomalies in the winds of Northern India, and their relation to the distribution of barometric pressure' by S A Hill

Reference number: RR/10/50

Date: 04 August 1887

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Under the circumstances, suggests sending the paper to the Philosophical Transactions, to avoid delay in having it sent to the Memoirs of the Indian Meteorological Department. Sir Farrar has communicated that a sum of money was removed by R Churchill, in a dispute with the Board of Trade. 'PRS' will have more information.

Subject: Meteorology

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1887]

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RR/10/50
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04 August 1887
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3 pages
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Manuscript

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George Howard Darwin

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George Howard Darwin, Letter from George Howard Darwin, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'Some anomalies in the winds of Northern India, and their relation to the distribution of barometric pressure' by S A Hill, 04 August 1887, RR/10/50, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_10_50/letter-from-george-howard-darwin-to-john-william-strutt-3rd-baron-rayleigh-regarding-a-paper-some-anomalies-in-the-winds-of-northern-india-and-their-relation-to-the-distribution-of-barometric-pressure-by-s-a-hill, accessed on 09 October 2024

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