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VIL A Meicorelogical Fournal for the Year 1782, kept at 
Minehead, ze Somerfetfhire. By Mr. John Atkins 5. com 
municated by Sir Jofeph Banks, Bart. P. R. §, 
Read January 15, 1784. 
Bad: ie Minehead, March 27, 1783. 
rE NHE numberiefs philofophical difcoveries and meteorolo- 
gical journals which I find have been addrefled to you, 
as being a gentleman whole great abilities have raifed you to 
the higheft pitch of grandeur in the philofophical world, and 
which, I find, have been treated with the greateft candour and 
refpect, and publifhed under your diretion for the improvement 
of {cientific knowledge, make me prefume (though an unknown, 
and even unheard of, individual) to direct this journal to you, not 
boafting, but rather doubting, of its being worthy of your recep- 
tion ; but my having found fo great a difference between the laft 
year and feveral preceding years, in the variations of the atmo- 
iphere, both barometrical and thermometrical, induced me to. 
communicate it to other obfervers through your approbation. 
Tam, &c. 
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