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RefNoRBO/20/26
AltRefNoRBO.20.234
LevelItem
Title'An Account and Abstract of the Meteorological Diaries communicated to the Royal Society for the years 1729 and 1730' by George Hadley
Date1737
DescriptionHadley was the successor to William Derham

Lists the diaries that he has received: from Francis Hauksbee at Crane Court, George Lynn at Southwick near Oundle in Northamptonshire, Olave Broman, S Laurelius, Andreas Celsius, Torstanus Wassenius, Conrad Quensel, and A Geringius from Sweden, M Hasiu and J Weidler from Saxony, Poleni from Padua, Mr Bellamy from Bengal, Paul Dudley from Boston in New England, Cyrillus from Naples

Hadley extracted a table from the diaries - explains the table and offers observations of it Read to the Royal Society on 31 March 1737
LanguageEnglish
Extent20 sides
FormatManuscript
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialPrinted in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 40, no 447, p 154
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA5043Hadley; George (1685 - 1768)1685 - 1768
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