| Description | Daily records of the weather at Fort William [Kolkata], usually three to four observations per day, at varying times. Columns for date and time, barometer, hygrometer, thermometer inside and outside, kind and quantity of clouds, wind direction and force, rain, and miscellanous remarks. The latter are often general weather observations, but there are also records of earthquakes, including on 3 March 1776 [p.263]: 'This moment I felt a shock of an earthquake & within half a minute ascended, it made me so Giddy I cou'd hardly sitr in my chair...'. There is also an extended discussion of electricity with clouds [pp.202-204]; and on 8 December 1776 [pp.330-331], an extended description commencing 'A very severe Earthquake, it stopped my Astronomical Clock'.
Stamped [p.3] 'Soc. Reg. Lond. ex dono Auctoris' and inscribed in ink 'Nov. 20. 1788.'. Inscribed [p.4]: 'This copy of a Meteorological Journal kept in Fort William Bengal...was taken by my order for the insoection of the President and members of the Royal Society T.D. Pearse'. |