Notes on Weather Reporting

Various papers relating to weather reporting by the Meteorological Office, London, comprising:

Weather map of the British Isles.

Offprint of "The Mean Temperature of every day in the year, from all the thermometrical observationstaken at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich; from the year 1814 to the end of 1856" by James Glaisher.

Notes from committee minutes.

Weekly weather report issued by the Meteorological Office, 8 July 1878.

Offprint of "The Rainfall of the British Islands" by Alexander Buchan, read before the Scottish Meteorological Society, 16 December 1885.

Tabulated data on Antarctic climatology issued by the Royal Geographical Society.

Sheet of weather symbols for maps.

Two copies of a memorandum from R H Scott, Chair of the Meteorological Council, London, to Warren de la Rue, Francis Galton and Sir Richard Strachey.

1857-1885

32 folios

The papers are available at UCL Special Collections and Archives subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

A digitised copy is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

The original material is held at UCL Special Collections. This catalogue is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.