Record

RefNoAP/33/18
LevelItem
TitleUnpublished paper, 'On the meteorology of the English Lake District, including the results of experiments on the fall of rain at various heights up to 3166 feet above the sea level' by John Fletcher Miller
Date28 February 1852
DescriptionMiller shares a series of meteorological observations. In the introductory remarks, he states that he determined the heights of the different rain-gauges above the level of the sea by means of an excellent Aneroid barometer (previously compared with a standard), and a standard barometer read simultaneously, or nearly so, at the sea-level.

Subject: Meteorology

Written by Miller in Whitehaven [England].

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 6 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 meteorology of the Lake District, including the results of experiments on the fall of rain at various heights up to 3166 feet above the sea-level. Fourth paper. For the year 1850'.

A version of this paper was published by Miller in The Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh: Miller, John Fletcher. 'On the Meteorology of the English Lake District, including the Results of Experiments on the Fall of Rain, the Temperature, the Dew Point, and the Humidity of the Atmosphere, at various Heights on the Mountains, up to 3166 feet above the Sea Level,—for the years 1851, 1852, and 1853.' The Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh, volume 21, number 1 (1857), pp. 81-122.
Extent11p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
AccessConditionsNot available to view, off site for conservation. Please refer to digital surrogate on Science in the Making.
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1850.0014
DOI: 10.1017/S0080456800032002
RelatedRecordRR/2/161
RR/2/160
AP/34/17
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CodePersonNameDates
NA5835Miller; John Fletcher (1816 - 1856)1816 - 1856
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