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RefNoAP/23/30
LevelItem
TitleUnpublished paper, 'On the wet summer of 1839' by Luke Howard
Date23 June 1840
DescriptionHoward shares that there was heavy rainfall in Yorkshire [England] in the summer of 1839. He presents a table of mean temperature and rainfall each month for the year 1839, and analyses this data.

Annotations in pencil throughout. Marked on back as 'Archives 4 June 1840'.

Subject: Meteorology

Received 23 January 1840. Read 20 February 1840. Communicated by Samuel Hunter Christie.

Written by Howard in Tottenham [London].

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 4 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'On the wet summer of 1839'.
Extent9p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk and graphite pencil on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1837.0099
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA4515Howard; Luke (1772 - 1864)1772 - 1864
NA8168Christie; Samuel Hunter (1784 - 1865); mathematician1784 - 1865
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