| Description | Daily records of the weather at Calcutta [Kolkata], usually three to four observations per day, at varying times. Columns for date and time, barometer, hygrometer, thermometer inside and outside, kind and quantity of clouds, wind direction and force, rain, and miscellanous remarks. The latter are often general weather observations, but there are also records of earthquakes, including on 19 April 1774 [p.45]: 'I felt a slight shock of an Earthquake...Colonel Ironside declares he felt a shock in the morning & that it made his Watch & Keys swing about as they hung up...]. Also, some astronomical items, for example on 10 November 1774 [p.121] 'frequent meteors called falling Stars very low, the electricity pretty strong as I got sparks from the globe with very little trouble'. There is an extended note on the electrification of clouds and mist [pp.216-219].
Apparently a fair copy of material in MA/200. |