Description | Monthly meteorological records kept at Southwick, Northamptonshire. The manuscript records the dates and times of observations, morning barometric pressure, coldest and hottest daily temperature, wind direction and strength, rainfall, and general remarks on the weather. With monthly means and rainfall totals. There is an note [p.3] on symbols in use in the manuscript. A brief account of a great storm [p.17] is given on 7 July 1727: 'This storm spread over all these parts of England and damaged churches, houses &c in severall places'.
Observations by Lynn are noted in the papers: ‘An abstract of the Meteorological diaries, communicated to the Royal Society, with remarks upon them…part V’, by William Derham, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, v.38 (1734), pp.458-470; and in ‘An account and abstract of the meteorological diaries communicated to the Royal Society, for the years 1729 and 1730’, by George Hadley, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, v.40 (1738), pp.154-175. Made in response to the paper: 'Invitatio ad observationes meteorologicas communi consilio instituendas', by James Jurin, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, v.32 (1723), pp.422-427.
Headed [p.1]: '1727. Southwick near Oundle in Northamptonshire. A Diary of the Weather, Altitudes of the Barometer, Thermomr. &c 1726'. In a different hand: 'By George Lynn Esqr.' Addressed: 'To Doctr. Jurin Secretary of the Royall Society, These'. Endorsed [p.28]: 'March 25 1729'. |