| RefNo | AP/23/31 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Unpublished paper, 'On certain variations of the mean height of the barometer, mean temperature and depth of rain, connected with the lunar phases, in the cycle of years from 1815 to 1823' by Luke Howard |
| Date | February 1840 |
| Description | Howard presents a table of the lunar phases for the 1815 to 1823 inclusive. From Howard's observations, taken in London, it appears that in the period of the last quarter of the moon the barometer is highest, the temperature a little above the mean, and the depth of rain the lowest. In the period of the new moon, both the barometer and temperature are considerably depressed, and the rain increased in quantity.
Annotations in ink throughout
Subject: Meteorology
Received 20 February 1840. Read 12 March 1840.
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 certain variations of the mean height of the barometer, mean temperature and depth of rain, connected with the lunar phases, in the cycle of years from 1815 to 1823'. |
| Extent | 6p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1837.0103 |
| RelatedRecord | AP/23/31a |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA4515 | Howard; Luke (1772 - 1864) | 1772 - 1864 |