| Description | Monthly temperature measurements from Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India. Presented in graphical form, with lines for readings at 5.00am in black ink) and at 3.00pm (in red). The scale is from 60 degrees to 110 degrees fahrenheit.
Headed [p.1]: 'Daily Register of temperature during a part of 1850 at Meeruth in the Upper Dooab'. A note below the main graph reads: 'The house at which these observations were made stands outside the cantonments on the edge of an open plain very free from either trees or buildings & the thermometer was carefully guarded from radiation or reflection'. Endorsed [p.2]: '65. Meeruth in the Upper Dooab 1850'. Signed [p.1]: 'Gubbins B.C.S.' [Bengal Civil Service?].
According to Council Minutes (CMP/2/64) this manuscript was communicated to the Royal Society by Colonel William Henry Sykes having been recorded by 'Mr. Gubbins'. Several of the Gubbins brothers served in India. Martin Richard Gubbins (1812-1863) is the best-known, but his brothers John Panton Gubbins, Charles Gubbins, and Frederick Bebb Gubbins were all present in the Civil Service at this time. |