Description | Daily observations on weather and natural history, kept at Mongewell, Oxfordshire. Entries are made on printed sheets for date, barometer readings, thermometer readings, wind direction and strength, rainfall, general weather remarks, with natural history and agricultural observations. The printed form specifies readings at 8.00am, 12.00, 4.00pm and 8.00pm, but with handwritten amendments and variations; the 8.00pm time is generally amended to 10.00pm or 11.00pm in manuscript.
Entries made within 'The Naturalist's Journal' (London, printed for Benjamin White, n.d.). The printed columns are headed: Year; Place; Soil; Barom[ete]r; Therm[omete]r; Wind; Inches of Rain or Sn[ow] Size of Hail-st[one]; Weather; Trees first in leaf - Fungi first appear; Plants first in flower: Mosses vegetate; Birds and Insects first appear or disappear; Observations with regard to fish, and other animals; Miscellaneous Observations and Memorandums. This volume contains several loose paper insertions, which have been paginated in sequence. Entries for 6 February-9 April are on one of these insertions, with an explanation [p.21]: 'Went ot London. Account of the Weather kept by my Gardiner till my return April 10th'. A second, covering the period 24 October-3 December is similarly explained [p.73]: 'Went to London'.
Front cover inscribed; '1775'. |