Record

RefNoMA/322/3
Previous numbersMA.324
LevelFile
TitleMeteorological observations at the Royal Society's apartments at Somerset House, London, by [Stephen Lee?]
CreatorLee; Stephen (d.1835); British librarian and assistant secretary to the Royal Society
The Royal Society (founded 1660)
Date1 December 31 December 1823
DescriptionDaily meteorological observations made at Somerset House: four readings per day, at 8.00am, 9.00am, 2.00pm and 3.00pm, from two sets of instruments. These are divided by recto and verso sheets as ['Old Instruments'] and 'New Instruments'', on a combination of printed sheets [for old instruments] and manuscript sheets [for new instruments]. The printed sheets contain columns for date and time of observations, external and interior thermometers, barometer, hygrometer, rain, direction and strength of winds, and general weather remarks. The 'New Instruments' manuscript sheets contain untitles columns, but presumably in continuation of MA/322/1-2: therefore, date and times of observations, barometer, thermometer, barometer corrected, Daniell's hygrometer, Kater's hygrometer, and Six's thermometer.

The data from the 'New Instruments' columns was published as 'Meteorological Journal, kept at the apartments of the Royal Society, by order of the President and Council', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, v.114 (1824), pp.1-26 [additional].

Paper label to front cover inscribed: '1823 No.3. Meteorological Journal from 1 December 1823 to the 31 Decemr. 1823'. In pencil: 'MA.324'.
Extent1 volume; 52p. [pp.1-3 and pp.12-52 blank]
FormatPrinted
Manuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper, bound in marbled paper covers.
Dimensions374x248mm.
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterial10.1098/rstl.1824.0004
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