| Description | Summary table of monthly means of the barometer, the thermometer at 10.00am and 3.00pm, and quantities of rain and snow. With a note on a great storm at Titchmarsh, near Thrapston, on 12 January 1726/7. A side note to the table states the type of instruments being used by George Lynn: 'By Patrick's Diagonnall Barometer And Hawksby's Thermometer' [therefore by John Patrick and Francis Hauksbee].
Observations by Lynn are noted in the papers ‘An account and abstract of the meteorological diaries communicated to the Royal Society, for the years 1729 and 1730’, by George Hadley, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, v.40 (1738), pp.154-175; and in ‘An abstract of the Meteorological diaries, communicated to the Royal Society, with remarks upon them…part V’, by William Derham, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, v.38 (1734), pp.458-470. Made in response to the paper: 'Invitatio ad observationes meteorologicas communi consilio instituendas', by James Jurin, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, v.32 (1723), pp.422-427. |