| Description | Daily observations, containing two sets of temperature readings per day. Columns for date and times, at 9.00am and 5.00pm, with height of the thermometer in inches and decimals [tenths of an inch], 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.24]: '1727, - 28 - 29 Bengall by the Rev'd Mr Bellamy for 1729'. |