| Reference number | AP/20/11 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Unpublished observations, 'Copy of a meteorological journal kept at the Royal Observatory Cape of Good Hope from the 1st June to 31st December 1834' by T [Thomas] Maclear |
| Date | 1835 |
| Description | Tabulated meteorological observations recorded at the Cape of Good Hope [South Africa] covering the period 1 June 1834 to 31 December 1834. The table displays barometer and thermometer readings at sunrise, noon, sunset and midnight for each date.
Subject: Meteorology
Received 13 August 1835. Communicated by Captain [Francis] Beaufort.
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 3 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'Meteorological journal kept at the Royal Observatory, cape of good hope, from the 1st of February to the 31st of May, 1834'. |
| Extent | 19p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| Physical description | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| Access status | Open |
| Access conditions | Not available to view, off site for conservation. Please refer to digital surrogate on Science in the Making. |
| Related material | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1830.0180 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA5914 | Beaufort; Sir; Francis (1774 - 1857); hydrographer | 1774 - 1857 |
| NA7105 | Maclear; Sir; Thomas (1794 - 1879) | 1794 - 1879 |