| Description | Hourly meteorological observations made from 6.00am on 21 December to 6.00pm on 22 December 1837 [Winter solstice]. Columns for day and hour of observation, barometer, thermometer, dew point by Daniell's hygrometer, wind direction, and deflection of Lieutenant Morrison's electrometer, with general weather remarks.
Headed [p.1]: 'Meteorological Observations Made for the Meteorological Society for 37 successive hours commencing at 6A.M., of the 21st of December 1837, and ending at 5P.M. of the following day. (St. Paul's, London clock time)...By Robert Carr Woods, Instrument Maker to the Meteorological Society; 47 Hatton Garden, London'. Inscribed [p.2]: 95. London. 1837'. |