RefNo | AP/23/30 |
Level | Item |
Title | Unpublished paper, 'On the wet summer of 1839' by Luke Howard |
Date | 23 June 1840 |
Description | Howard shares that there was heavy rainfall in Yorkshire [England] in the summer of 1839. He presents a table of mean temperature and rainfall each month for the year 1839, and analyses this data.
Annotations in pencil throughout. Marked on back as 'Archives 4 June 1840'.
Subject: Meteorology
Received 23 January 1840. Read 20 February 1840. Communicated by Samuel Hunter Christie.
Written by Howard in Tottenham [London].
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 4 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'On the wet summer of 1839'. |
Extent | 9p |
Format | Manuscript |
PhysicalDescription | Ink and graphite pencil on paper |
Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1837.0099 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA4515 | Howard; Luke (1772 - 1864) | 1772 - 1864 |
NA8168 | Christie; Samuel Hunter (1784 - 1865); mathematician | 1784 - 1865 |