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RefNoAP/15/28
LevelFile
TitleUnpublished paper and letter, 'Journal of the weather report at High Wycombe, Bucks lat. 51°36'44" north, long. 34'45" west, during the year 1831, with monthly observations' by James G [George] Tatem
Date[1832]
DescriptionTatem provides meteorological observations taken at High Wycombe [Buckinghamshire, England], recording the greatest elevations and depressions of the barometer and thermometer over the course of 1831 as well as mean observations, with a discussion comparing these observations with previous years. It also includes data on rainfall and windspeeds. Preceded by a covering letter from Tatem to James Hudson.

Subject: Meteorology

Received by the Royal Society on 31 March 1832.

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 'Journal of the weather, kept at High Wycombe during the year 1831, with monthly observations'.
Extent6p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1830.0304
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