| Description | Daily observations, commencing with three sets of readings per day, and continuing with either two or three observations. Columns for date and times, height of the barometer [not used], height of the thermometer in inches and decimals [tenths of an inch], with wind direction and strength and general comments on the weather.
The manuscript is noted in ‘An abstract of the meteorological diaries, communicated to the Royal Society, with remarks upon them…part IV’, by William Derham, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, v.38 (1734), pp.405-412. The observations were 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.
Endorsed verso [p.16]: 'A Diary of the Weather at Bengal by the Rev'd Mr Bellamy Chaplain to the English Factory', and 'Febr. 6 1728'. |