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Authorised form of nameSymons; George James (1838 - 1900)
Dates1838 - 1900
NationalityBritish
Place of birthQueen's Row, Pimlico, London, England
Date of birth06 August 1838
Date of death10/03/1900
Dates and placesBurial:
Kensal Green cemetery, London
OccupationMeteorologist
ActivityCareer:
Meteorological reporter to the Registrar General (1857-1900); established meteorological stations throughout the British Isles; Secretary, Rainfall Committee of the British Association; began a monthly rain circular (1863); it developed into the Meteorological Magazine (1866), of which he was the Editor; died of paralysis
Memberships:
FRMS (1856, President (1880-1881, 1900); Scottish Meteorological Society
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election06/06/1878
SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1905 vol 75 pp 104-105 signed by A B
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/27854790
Royal Society codeNA6485
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
EC/1878/18Symons, George James: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/15/240Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to George James Symons, Fellow of the Royal Society22 July 1897
NLB/2/757Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to George James Symons29 October 1888
NLB/1/480Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to George James Symons, Fellow of the Royal Society28 June 1887
NLB/4/212Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Mr George James Symons, Fellow of the Royal Society13 March 1890
NLB/4/605Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to George James Symons, Fellow of the Royal Society21 July 1890
NLB/4/672Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to George James Symons18 September 1890
NLB/4/503Copy letter from Michael Foster, to George James Symons, Fellow of the Royal Society19 June 1890
NLB/3/857Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to George James Symons, Fellow of the Royal Society28 October 1889
NLB/3/829Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to George James Symons, Fellow of the Royal Society18 October 1889
NLB/5/1157Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to George James Symons, Fellow of the Royal Society16 January 1892
NLB/5/1071Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to George James Symons, [Fellow of the Royal Society]31 December 1891
NLB/10/817Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Mr Thomas Matheson, Oldgate Street, Morpeth11 February 1895
NLB/12/210Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to George James Symons, Fellow of the Royal Society6 January 1896
NLB/2/546Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Professor George James Symons, Fellow of the Royal Society10 August 1888
NLB/14/857Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Carey Foster, Fellow of the Royal Society28 May 1897
NLB/15/773Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to George James Symons, Fellow of the Royal Society6 December 1897
NLB/16/47Copy letter from Michael Foster, to G J Symons, Fellow of the Royal Society21 January [1898]
NLB/19/264Copy letter from Robert William Harrison, to George James Symons, Fellow of the Royal Society21 July 1899
NLB/20/284Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons13 March 1900
NLB/20/698Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to George Washington Moon, 131 Bedford Court Mansions, Bedford Square, W.C.19 June 1900
MS/427/419Copy letter from [George Gabriel] Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary of the Treasury16 April 1885
MS/427/431Copy letter from [Michael] Foster, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Assistant Financial Secretary, Treasury26 May 1885
NLB/2/489Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Mr George James Symons18 July 1888
NLB/8/667Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to George James Symons, Fellow of the Royal Society5 December 1893
NLB/12/877Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to George James Symons, Fellow of the Royal Society22 May 1896
NLB/15/218Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to George James Symons, Fellow of the Royal Society17 July 1887
RR/14/233Referee's report by George James Symons, on a paper 'The diurnal range of rain at the seven observatories in connection with the Meteorological Office, 1871-1890' by Robert Henry Scott11 May 1899
RR/10/122Referee's report by George James Symons, on a paper 'On the relations of the diurnal barometric maxima to certain critical conditions of temperature, cloud, and rainfall' by Henry Francis Blanford5 May 1888
MS/516/6/9Letter from James Beazley, the British Ship Owners Company, Liverpool (Limited) to [George James] Symons, [Chair of the Royal Society Krakatoa Committee]14 February 1884
NLB/20/162Copy letter from Michael Foster and Arthur William Rucker, to Sir Richard Strachey, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Meteorological Council19 February 1900
MC/11/221Letter from G J [George James] Symons, 62 Camden Square, London, to Professor [George Gabriel] Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society11 June 1878
MC/11/362Letter from G J [George James] Symons, Secretary of the Meteorological Society, 30 Great George Street, Westminster, to [Thomas Henry Huxley and George Gabriel Stokes], Secretaries of the Royal Society19 May 1879
MC/11/432Letter from G J [George James] Symons, Secretary of the Meteorological Society, 30 Great George Street, Westminster, to Walter White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]4 November 1879
MC/11Volume 11 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1877-1879
PP/3/29Paper, 'Note on the establishment and first results of simultaneous thermometric and hygrometric observations at heights of 4 and 170 feet, and of Siemens’ electrical thermometer at 260 feet above the ground' by G J [George James] Symons1883
PP/3/29/1Manuscript, 'Note on the establishment and first results of simultaneous thermometric and hygrometric observations at heights of 4 and 170 feet, and of Siemens’ electrical thermometer at 260 feet above the ground' by G J [George James] Symons1883
PP/3/29/2Diagram, 'relative situations of the three sets of thermometers' by G J [George James] Symons1883
PP/11/12Paper, 'On the detonating bolide of November 20th, 1887' by George James Symons1887
PP/11/12/1Manuscript, 'On the detonating bolide of November 20th, 1887' by George James Symons1887
PP/11/12/2Map, locations affected by the detonating bolide by George James Symons1887
PP/16/4/1Manuscript, 'On barometric oscillations during thunderstorms, and on the brontometer, an instrument designed to facilitate their study' by George James Symons1890
PP/16/4Paper, 'On barometric oscillations during thunderstorms, and on the brontometer, an instrument designed to facilitate their study' by George James Symons1890
PP/16/4/2Diagrams, barograms by George James Symons1890
MC/14/229Letter from [George James] Symons, 62 Camden Square, London, to the Secretaries of the Royal Society15 June 1887
MC/15/87Letter from [George James] Symons, 62 Camden Square, to the Secretaries of the Royal Society26 June 1890
MS/516/6/10Letter from S. Waymouth, Orient Steam Navigation Company Limited, Fenchurch Avenue, London, to [George James] Symons, [Chair of the Royal Society Krakatoa Committee]14 February 1884
MC/15/83Letter from [George James] Symons, 62 Camden Square, London, to the Secretaries of the Royal Society12 June 1890
MC/14/130Letter from [George James] Symons, 62 Camden Square, to Secretaries of the Royal Society19 May 1886
MC/14Volume 14 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1885-1888
MC/15Volume 15 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1889-1892
MS/516/6/15Memorandum from George Dowcra Junior, Perry Barr, Handsworth, Birmingham, to [George James] Symons, [Chair of the Royal Society Krakatoa Committee]26 February 1884
MS/516/6/13Letter from L. Reid, Baroque Inc, SW India Docks, to [George James] Symons, [Chair of the Royal Society Krakatoa Committee]18 February 1884
MS/516/6/14Letter from George Docwra Junior, Steam Flower Mills, Handsworth, Birmingham to [George James] Symons, [Chair of the Royal Society Krakatoa Committee]23 February 1884
HS/17/256Letter, from George James Symons to Sir John Herschel, dated at 136 Camden Road13 June 1865
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