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Authorised form of nameFarquharson; James (1781 - 1843)
Dates1781 - 1843
NationalityBritish
Place of birthCoull parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Date of birth1781
Date of death03 December 1843
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election28/01/1830
SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Royal Society codeNA5926
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
EC/1830/03Farquharson, James: certificate of election to the Royal Society
PT/26/4Paper, 'Report of a remarkable appearance of the aurora borealis below the clouds' by James Farquharson[1842]
AP/19/13Unpublished observations, regarding copies of registers of the thermometer kept at Alford, Aberdeenshire by the Reverend James Farquharson1833-1834
MS/257/2/153Mean results of the thermometer and the quantity of rain for 1841 at Alford [by James Farquharson][1841]
RR/1bis/50Referee's report by an unknown referee [Lethes?], on two papers, [attributed] 'A meteorological journal for 1840, kept at Allenheads, Northumberland, with a few remarks on the rain-gauge' by William Walton, and 'On the localities affected by hoar-frost, the peculiar currents of air excited by it, and the temperature during its occurrence at high and low stations' by James Farquharson[1841]
MS/257/5/161Incomplete letter from [James Farquahason]19th century
MS/257/2/151Letter from James Farquharson, Alford to Edward Sabine3 March 1842
MS/257/2/150Letter from James Farquharson, Alford to Edward Sabine10 November 1830
MS/257/2/152Incomplete letter from James Farquharson[1781-1843]
AP/25/7Unpublished paper, 'On the localities affected by hoar-frost; the peculiar currents of air excited by it; and the temperature, during its occurrence, at high and low stations' by James Farquharson3 March 1841
MS/257/2/149Report of Magnetic Observations, made in 1830 at Alford, Aberdeenshire by [James Farquharson][1830-1831]
MA/112Letter from James Farquharson, Alford, to [John David Roberton?]14 May 1839
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