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   "text": "The weather, a very important item in the success of meetings, has been, like the season itself, very variable on the Club’s days.",
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   "source": "The same report"
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   "source": "The same report, the Wooler and Cheviot meeting, p. 279"
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   "text": "an agreeable surprise, after the rain of the preceding day-and evening, and the lugubrious looking morning",
   "source": "The same report, St Mary’s Loch, Wednesday 29 August 1883"
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   "title": "Register of rainfall and sunshine in the year 1883, kept at Marchmont, by Peter Loney: History of the Berwickshire Naturalists’ Club, vol. X, p. 421",
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   "note": "Transcribed by Nephos into window-engine/evidence/guthrie/marchmont-1883.json; the sums are checked against the printed monthly totals."
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