| Description | Daily observations on weather and natural history, kept at Amen Corner, London [1 January-7 June 1770], and at Mongewell, Oxfordshire [1 September-6 October 1770]. Entries are made on printed sheets for date, barometer readings, thermometer readings, and miscellaneous weather and other observations. The printed form specifies readings at 8.00am, 12.00, 4.00pm and 8.00pm, the latter generally amended to 10.00pm in manuscript.
Entries made within 'The Naturalist's Journal' (London, printed for W. Sandby, 1767). The printed columns are headed: Year; Place; Soil; Barom[ete]r; Therm[omete]r; 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.
Paper label to front cover inscribed: 'Naturalist's Journal 1770'. |