| Description | Monthly summaries of meteorological observations made at Chavenage, Gloucestershire. Totals of days with and without rain, cloudy days, foggy days, and other conditions. Highest and lowest thermometer readings are also recorded, with general weather remarks. The latter includes a note on the frozen-over river Thames in January. With several associated memoranda below the main table.
Title page [p.1] headed: 'An abstract of a regular Diary or Journal of the weather kept during the whole of the year 1789 at Chavenage in the County of Glocester'. Signed by Robert Nicholl [later Carne]. Stamped 'Soc. Reg. Lond. ex dono Auctoris' and inscribed with the date 4 March 1790. Inscribed [p.2]: 'Meteorological observations made at Chavenage in the county of Glocester by the Revd. Robt. Nicholl A.M.'. |