| Description | Table of annual summaries of the weather, kept at Southwick, Northamptonshire. The manuscript records columns for monthly means in each year for barometric pressure, quantities of rain in inches and decimals, mean altitude of the thermometer at the coldest and hottest points, and means of those readings, with wind direction and strength. There is an extended explanation beow the table.
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]: 'Southwick near Oundle in Northamptonshire'. Endorsed [p.2]: 'May. 20. 1731'. |