| Description | Daily observations of barometrical pressure, temperature, wind direction and force, with general weather observations and rainfall. Usually single observations, with the time noted, but occasionally two records per day.
The manuscript, written at the Spalding Gentlemen's Society in Lincolnshire, follows the format recommended in the paper: 'Invitatio ad observationes meteorologicas communi consilio instituendas', by James Jurin, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, v.32 (1723), pp.422-427.
The item is noted in the paper ‘Your very obliging correspondence: the Royal Society and the provincial Republic of Letters in Georgian Lincolnshire', by Liam Sims, Notes and Records of the Royal Society, v.77 (2023), pp.191-212: Sims gives the location of the observations and the equipment: 'a barometer and thermometer be provided at the charges of the [Spalding Gentlemen's] Society to answer the proposal made by Dr Jurin...& that the same be placed in the publick library in the vestiary & a table kept there to insert daily the proper observationes, by the members of this Society'. The Secretary of the Spalding Society, Maurice Johnson, wrote in November 1725 that he was to attend the Royal Society ‘where I purpose to present the secretary with Mr Howard’s Observationes Meteorologicae’. This may be the Reverend Henry Howard, elected to the Spalding Gentlemen's Society in 1723.
Headed [p.1]: ' Diarium Spaldelynoiis Gyrvorum in Holandia Lindecolinensi S.G.S.' |