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RefNoAP/21/5
LevelItem
TitleUnpublished observations, 'Meteorological deductions made from observations made at the Observatory, Port Louis, Mauritius' by John Augustus Lloyd
Date1837
DescriptionLloyd shares a table of barometer, thermometer and hygrometer readings from the observatory at Port Lewis covering the period January 1833 to December 1835. Annotated in ink throughout. Marked on back as 'archives'.

Subject: Meteorology

Read 25 May 1837. Communicated by Captain [Francis] Beaufort.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 3 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'On meteorological deductions from observations made at the observatory at Port Louis in the Mauritius, during the years 1833, 1834, and 1835'.
Extent10p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1830.0293
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA1394Lloyd; John Augustus (1800 - 1854)1800 - 1854
NA5914Beaufort; Sir; Francis (1774 - 1857); hydrographer1774 - 1857
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