| Description | Table of daily observations made at at the Convalescent Hospital at Mahabaleshwar, Maharashtra State. Columns for observations made at sunrise, 10.00am, 4.00pm, and 10.00pm; recording readings of the barometer, mercury thermometer, temperature of the air and wet bulb, and wind direction. The column for 10.00pm has not been completed. With additional columns for thermometer in the Sun's rays at 4.00pm [not completed], maximum and minimum readings of self registering thermometers, rain gauge in inches, and days of the month. With general remarks on the state of the weather.
Headed: 'Meteorological Register kept at the Convalescent Hospital, of the...Regiment....at the Station of Mahableshwur. for the Month of August 1858'. Signed by Charles Morehead as Superintending Surgeon and by Gilbert Maitland as Surgeon in Medical Charge. Inscribed verso [p.2]: 'Form 24 Meteorological Register...for the Month of August 1858. Mahablr. 1st September 1858. Forwarded 23rd Septr. Received 27'. With printed notes. |