| Description | Daily observations at two hourly intervals at Singapore. Readings of the declination magnetometer, horizontal force magnetometer and its attached thermometer, vertical force magnetometer and its attached thermometer, uncorrected barometer and its attached thermometer, dry and wet thermometers, elasticity of vapour [four daily observations], miminum temperature, solar and terrestrial radiation and Moon's age. With daily standard thermometer and corrected barometer readings. There are also term day observations, commencing at 10.00p.m. on 20 April, and concluding at 9.00p.m. on 21 April [Gottingen mean time], with readings of the magnetometers, barometer, wet and dry thermometers and standard thermometer, with general remarks on the weather.
Each sheet is headed: 'Observatory at Singapore. Abstract of daily observations....' or 'Abstract of Term-day observations...'. Signed [p.13, p.15 and p.20]: 'C.M. Elliot Lt. Engineers'. There are several light pencil signatures [pp.1-8], including William Arnold and W. Downes [?]. |