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. The manuscript commences [p.1] with an extended note on symbols in use in the manuscript.
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]: 'No. 3. Southwick near Oundle in Northamptonshire. A Diary of the Weather &c 1728'. Endorsed [p.28]: 'read May 20: 1731'. |