| Description | Monthly summaries of meteorological observations, providing maximum and minimum readings of the barometer and thermometers (in the office and in open air) in the morning, midday, afternoon and evening. Followed by columns for general observations, storms, winds, hygrometer readings at morning, midday, afternoon and evening, day and night udometer readings, number of morning and night rainfalls, number of rainy days, and rainfall maximums and minimums.
Headed [p.1]: 'Observations Meteorologiques, faites a Flacq, Ile Maurice, par M. Julien Desjardins, pendant les six derniers mois de 1836, et les six premiers de 1837'. Lower right: 'Imprimerie du Mauricien'. Inscribed in manuscript [p.2]: 'Meteorological Register St. Maurice July 1836 to June 1837' and 'Meteorological Observations at Van Diemen's Land and the Island of San Maurice'. |