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Unpublished observations, regarding copies of registers of the thermometer kept at Alford, Aberdeenshire by the Reverend James Farquharson

Reference number: AP/19/13

Date: 1833-1834

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Farquharson shares the readings of three thermometers kept at Alford, Aberdeenshire [Scotland]. Includes three tables of readings taken in the morning and evening of each day from 1 January 1833 to 31 December 1834, with means, high and low temperatures calculated for each month. Marked on back as 'archive'.

Subject: Meteorology / Climate

Received 17 March 1835 by John George Children. Read 2 April 1835.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 3 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'Copies of registers of the thermometer kept at Alford, Aberdeenshire'.

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AP/19/13
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1833-1834
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Ink on paper
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8 pages
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Manuscript

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James Farquharson

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James Farquharson, Unpublished observations, regarding copies of registers of the thermometer kept at Alford, Aberdeenshire by the Reverend James Farquharson, 1833-1834, AP/19/13, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_19_13/unpublished-observations-regarding-copies-of-registers-of-the-thermometer-kept-at-alford-aberdeenshire-by-the-reverend-james-farquharson, accessed on 06 February 2026

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