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RefNoEC/1854/14
Previous numbersCert IX, 345; A55909
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TitleWhitbread, Samuel Charles: certificate of election to the Royal Society
CitationFounder and the first President of the British Meteorological Society, the members of which now amount to nearly 200 - of whom about 70 return daily observations from all parts of the Kingdom to the Society - An Abstract of these Observations is published quarterly by the Registrar General - Distinguished for his acquaintance with the science of Meteorology and Astronomy - and Founder of an Observatory at Cardington near Bedford
ProposersFrom Personal Knowledge. G B Airy; Richard Sheepshanks; George Bishop; J G Shaw Lefevre; John Lee; William Simms; James Glaisher; A K Barclay; Wm Gravatt; J B Reade; Ph J Yorke; Chas Brooke; Baden Powell; Robert H Inglis
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Whitbread, Samuel Charles: certificate of election to the Royal Society

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NA3831Whitbread; Samuel Charles (1796 - 1879)1796 - 1879
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