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Authorised form of nameMeldrum; Charles (1821 - 1901)
Dates1821 - 1901
NationalityBritish
Place of birthKirkmichael, Banffshire, Scotland
Date of birth19 October 1821
Place of deathEdinburgh
Date of death28/08/1901
Research fieldMeteorology
ActivityEducation:
Marischal College, Aberdeen. MA (1844)
Career:
Education Department, Bombay Presidency (1846); Professor of Mathematics, Royal College of Mauritius (1848); founded the Mauritius Meteorological Society (1851); in charge of the Mauritius Government Observatory (1862-1896); returned to England (1896)
Honours:
CMG 1886
Memberships:
FRAS; FMS
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election01/06/1876
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1905 vol 75 pp 151-152 signed by R H S
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/50006206
CodeNA6163
Archives associated with this Fellow
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MM/17/27Letter from Charles Meldrum to Walter White, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society10 February 1871
NLB/15/756Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons2 December 1897
NLB/6/719Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Harrisons1 July 1892
NLB/14/226Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons25 January 1897
NLB/16/652Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons16 May 1898
NLB/14/552Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Charles Meldrum, Fellow of the Royal Society27 March 1897
NLB/20/301Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Mr W Parker, Parcels Department, Euston Station, N.W.15 March 1900
MS/257/3/116Letter from Charles Meldrum, 3 Greenside, Richmond to Edward Sabine1 February 1867
AP/58/4/5Unpublished letter, regarding 'On a secular variation in the rainfall in connection with the secular variation in the amount of sun-spots' from John Allan Broun to George Gabriel Stokes8 January 1877
RR/8/51Referee's report by Warren de la Rue, on a paper 'On a secular variation in the rainfall in connexion with the secular variation in amount of sun-spots' by Charles Meldrum2 July 1877
MS/257/3/119Letter from Charles Meldrum, Kew Observatory to Edward Sabine15 February 1867
AP/58/4/2Unpublished appendix, 'Reply to objections to Mr Meldrum's paper on rainfall and sunspots' by Charles Meldrum19 September 1876
MC/9/511Letter from C [Charles] Meldrum, Observatory Mauritius, to Sir Edward Sabine7 March 1873
EC/1876/15Meldrum, Charles: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MS/516/5/3Extract of a letter from [Charles] Meldrum to [Robert Henry] Scott26 January 1884
MC/8/155Letter from C [Charles] Meldrum, 8 Bedford Place, Russell Square, London, to Lieutenant General [Edward] Sabine, President of the Royal Society18 March 1868
MS/257/3/118Letter from Charles Meldrum, 3 Greenside, Richmond to Edward Sabine9 February 1867
MC/9Volume 9 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1870-June 1873
AP/58/4/3Unpublished letter, regarding 'On a secular variation in the rainfall in connection with the secular variation in the amount of sun-spots' from Balfour Stewart to unknown recipient12 July 1876
MC/10/440Letter from C [Charles] Meldrum, Observatory Mauritius, to Professor [George Gabriel] Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society17 August 1876
MC/10/441Letter from C [Charles] Meldrum, Observatory Mauritius, to Walter White, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society17 August 1876
MC/10Volume 10 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal SocietyJuly 1873-1876
AP/58/4Unpublished paper, 'On a secular variation in the rainfall in connection with the secular variation in the amount of sun-spots' by C [Charles] Meldrum1876-1877
AP/58/4/4Unpublished letter, regarding 'On a secular variation in the rainfall in connection with the secular variation in the amount of sun-spots' from G G [George Gabriel] Stokes to the referees of Charles Meldrum's paper[1876]
MS/257/3/121Letter from Charles Meldrum, Kew Observatory to Edward Sabine27 February 1867
MS/257/3/123Letter from Charles Meldrum, Kew Observatory to Edward Sabine15 March 1867
MS/257/3/113Letter from Charles Meldrum, Mauritius to Edward Sabine18 February 1865
MS/257/3/117Letter from Charles Meldrum, 3 Greenside, Richmond to Edward Sabine4 February 1867
MS/257/3/114Letter from Charles Meldrum, Mauritius to Edward Sabine7 March 1865
MS/257/3/120Letter from Charles Meldrum, Kew Observatory to Edward Sabine18 February 1867
MS/257/3/124Letter from Charles Meldrum, 15 Broughton [Place], Edinburgh to Edward Sabine21 November 1867
AP/58/4/1Unpublished manuscript, 'On a secular variation in the rainfall in connection with the secular variation in the amount of sun-spots' by C [Charles] Meldrum6 January 1876
MC/8Volume 8 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1867-1869
AP/65/1/1Unpublished manuscript, 'On Meldrum's rules for handling ships in the Southern Indian Ocean' by Ralph Abercromby1888
AP/65/1Unpublished paper, 'On Meldrum's rules for handling ships in the Southern Indian Ocean' by Ralph Abercromby1888
MS/257/3/125Letter from Charles Meldrum, 107 King Street, Aberdeen to Mrs Sabine4 January 1868
PP/5/22Paper, 'Report to the Solar Physics Committee on a comparison between apparent inequalities of short period in sun-spot areas and in diurnal temperature ranges at Toronto and Kew' by Balfour Stewart and William Lant Carpenter1884
PP/5/22/1Manuscript, 'Report to the Solar Physics Committee on a comparison between apparent inequalities of short period in sun-spot areas and in diurnal temperature ranges at Toronto and Kew' by Balfour Stewart and William Lant Carpenter1884
MS/257/3/110Letter from Charles Meldrum, Mauritius to Edward Sabine7 December 1854
MS/257/3/126Letter from Charles Meldrum, Mauritius to Edward Sabine1 July 1870
MS/257/3/122Letter from Charles Meldrum, Kew Observatory to Edward Sabine12 March 1867
MS/257/3/115Letter from Charles Meldrum, S S Norseman to Edward Sabine22 December 1866
MS/257/3/111Letter from Charles Meldrum, Mauritius to Edward Sabine6 September 1860
MS/257/3/112Letter from Charles Meldrum, Mauritius to Edward Sabine6 February 1863
MS/516/9/1Letter from [Charles]Todd, Adelaide, and [Charles] Meldrum, Mauritius, collected by the [Royal Society Krakatoa Committee]February 1884
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