Record

Reference numberMS/257/3/133
Alternative reference numberSa.878
Previous numbersES3/38/877-8
LevelItem
Title'Fall of Rain in the Lake District and Mountain District in the Year 1848'
Date1848
DescriptionThis is an extract ‘from a paper read before The Royal Society of London, on the 19th of April 1849.

Includes a table of places, rain in inches, and wet days, as well as a table of mountain gauges with [rain] in inches. Includes discussion the increase in percentage of rain compared with summer and winter months.

Notes the rain on Sca Fell during winter 1847 to 1848 ‘was lost, in consequence of injury by the receiver’.

‘Receipts of mountain gauges, with the circumjacent vallies, during summer of 1848’. Discussion regarding Sca Fell Pike.
Extent2p
FormatManuscript
Physical descriptionInk on paper
Access statusOpen
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