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  <dc:title>Explanatory note on meteorological observations at Fort St. George, India, by [William Roxburgh]</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Commencing 'The accompanying Diary was kept in the following manner, at Fort St. George in the East Indies...' [Fort St. George, Chennai, India]. With a description of the instruments and observing times: including a tin cylinder rain gauge, a thermometer by Nairn and Blunt, and a Ramsden barometer.  

Headed [p.1]: 'This is Mr. Roxburgh's handwriting, J.D.' [Jonas Dryander]. Dryander was appointed as the Royal Society's Librarian in 1785; the accompanying weather observations were presented in January 1786.  </dc:description>
  <dc:date>n.d. [c.1785]</dc:date>
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