| RefNo | PT/73/15/31 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Diagram, 'The corresponding temperatures' by [James Hudson] |
| Creator | Hudson; James (fl 1832) |
| Date | [July 1831] |
| Description | Plate 21b showing a chart of mean hourly observations from a thermometer that was present in the hall of the Royal Society. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Ink inscription to left of title at top of chart reads 'rather large'. Left of the chart, an inscription reads 'To join the former in a folding plate'. Ink inscription below chart reads 'Very small (The thermometer showing these temperatures is the one attached to the instrument, and dipping into the mercury of the cistern.)' Not signed. Watermarked 'B&T Sweetapple 1827'. A strip of paper from a printed text is pasted to verso and reads, '[...] you their thanks [...] to be published [...] Society's next [...] [obe]dient, & [...] Servant [...] Sec. R.S.' The manuscript for this paper is wanting.
Subject: Meteorology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'Hourly observations on the barometer; with experimental investigations into the phenomena of its periodical oscillation' by James Hudson.
Read to the Royal Society on 21 June 1832. |
| Extent | 2p |
| Format | Diagram |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Dimensions | 373x275mm |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1832.0025 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1830.0080 |