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Reference numberNLB/32/562
Alternative reference numberNLB/32 p317
LevelItem
TitleCopy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to H Outhwaite, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, S.E.
Date4 April 1906
DescriptionHarrison explains that despite the Royal Society's extensive collection of meteorological observations, they only have two manuscript meteorological observations covering the period 1745 to 1750, namely a journal by Dr James Jurin and a journal by John Hooker of Tunbridge. The volumes of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society for that period also contain a few relevant papers.
Extent1p
FormatCarbon
Physical descriptionTypescript
Access statusOpen
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