| Description | Daily observations on the steamship Earl of Hardwicke, departing from Spithead, England and sailing for Calcutta [Kolkata], India, with a return to England, sighting the Lizard on 6 May 1841 [p.21]. Columns give information on: day and date of observations; latitude and longitude; barometer and sympiesometer readings at 9.30am, noon, 3.00pm, and 10.30pm; with air and sea temperature readings at 8.00am and general remarks on weather, including wind. With a 'Register of the Barometer on Monday 22nd March 1841' [p.22]; and a barometer comparison between Captain Herring's instrument and that of the Royal Society, July 1841.
Headed [p.1]: 'No. 273. Meteorological Register on board the Earl of Hardwicke during a Voyage from London to Calcutta & back to London kept by Captain Alex Henning'. Inscribed below: 'Communicated by Sir J. Herschel Recd' 2nd. Septr. 1841 S.H.C.' [Samuel Hunter Christie]. Inscribed above: Received July 30. 1841 from P.S. - J.F.W.H. communication for the R.Socy.'
The paper is noted as having been read at the Royal Society on 18 November 1841: 'Meteorological register kept on board the Earl of Hardwicke, during a voyage from London to Calcutta and back to London', by Captain Alexander Henning, Abstracts of papers printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, v.4 (1843), p.329. |