| RefNo | AP/15/14 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Unpublished paper, 'An account of numerous extraordinary meteors seen at Malvern November the twelfth, 1832' by W [William] Addison |
| Date | [1831] |
| Description | Addison describes a meteor shower that he observed in Malvern [Worcestershire, England], lasting over an hour and consisting of small shooting stars and much larger meteors. Numerous corrections and deletions appear throughout in ink.
Subject: Astronomy
Communicated by W [William George] Maton.
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 3 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'An account of an extraordinary meteor seen at Malvern, November 12, 1832'. |
| Extent | 14p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1830.0087 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA7295 | Maton; William George (1774 - 1835) | 1774 - 1835 |
| NA536 | Addison; William (1802 - 1881) | 1802 - 1881 |