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Letter from Frank Abbott to Dr GF Story, Hobart 1863

Abbott, Frank 1863 , Letter from Frank Abbott to Dr GF Story, Hobart 1863 , University of Tasmania Library Special and Rare Materials Collection.

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Abstract

A letter from Frank Abbott to Dr GF Story, Hobart 17 October 1863. The letter discusses maximum and radiating (minimum) thermometers, and Abbott comments on Story's description of a meteor on the 15th of August. Abbott intended to forward this description to the British Meteorological Society. From Cotton Family Papers C7/118

Item Type: Other
Authors/Creators:Abbott, Frank
Keywords: Frank Abbott, Dr George Fordyce Story, 1863, thermometers, meterology, science, colonial, Tasmania, Tas, nineteenth century, radiating thermometers, measurement, research, science, Hobart, scientific instruments, GF Story, GF Storey, meteor, astronomy, astronomical
Publisher: University of Tasmania Library Special and Rare Materials Collection
Collections: Quaker Collection
Dr GF Story Collection
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