| Description | Presenting a copy his meteorological journal for the years 1783 and 1784, encouraged by the Royal Society's reception of his previous work. He gives an account of his experiments in hydrostatics and his method of drawing a liquid from the brim of a vessel without using a syphon or pump. He describes the technique, which employs a narrow piece of wet muslin or thin linen of a yard length. Atkins goes on to describe a well at Newton in Glamorganshire near to the Bristol Channel, which ebbs and flows with the tide. Atkins thinks that some explanation other than a syphon effect is needed to account for this.
Inscribed in pencil [p.1] 'Mr Atkins' |