Comprises:
Offprint of Josh Baxendell's letter to Sir Edward Sabine on the "Suspension of Storm Warnings",published in the Manchester Courier, 26 March 1867.
Notes and a colour diagram by Galton on "Apparatus for co-ordinating the results of self-recording meteorological instruments".
Printed copy of Galton's paper "Description of the Pantagraph Designed by Mr. Galton", with an envelope labelled "Some of the earlier correspondence, also [to one] to be worked by one hand but never made (and probably not worth making)".
Notes on the meteorological office's requirement for a pantagraph
Graph labelled "Barom: of Aberdeen 15 days, reduced by a camera lucida", and colour diagram of the pantagraph
Letter from Joseph Beck of R&J Beck communicating his doubt about the efficacy of their instrument [unnamed] in achieving Galton's objective. Dated 5 May 1869.
Letter from Galton regarding the specifications of an instrument. Addressee is not stated. Dated 15 July 1869.
Letter from Balfour Stewart stating that Galton's proposed instrument for making graphs from the results of self-recording meteorological instrument would be too costly, and enclosing a paper on the simultaneous recording of weather at Kew and Oxford. Dated 1 May 1867.
Letter from Joshua Baxendell regarding order of an instrument. Letter is annotated by Galton. Dated 17 January 1870.
