Unpublished paper, 'Some remarks on a paper entitled "On the depth of rain which falls in the same localities at different altitudes in the hilly districts of Lancashire, Cheshire [England] etc" by S C [Samuel Collett] Homersham' by John Fletcher Miller

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Miller alludes to the discordance between the conclusions at which he had arrived from a discussion of his meteorological observations in the lake district of Cumberland and Westmoreland, described in a former paper, and those drawn from the same facts by Homersham, in a paper read before the Society on 25 May 1848 (see AP/30/5). He states that the results for the year 1848 show a precisely similar gradation to those of the two preceding years, and that the whole of the observations appear to warrant the conclusion which he had ventured to draw from those detailed in his former paper. He remarks that, as the rain-gauges are, with one exception, situated on the high mountains surrounding the head of the Vale of Wastdale, this valley is the only one which can fairly be selected as a standard in comparing the quantities of rain obtained at the different mountain stations. He believes the discordance between his conclusions and those arrived at by Homersham has arisen from Homersham having selected the 'distant and excessively wet' locality of Seathwaite as a representative of the quantity of water deposited in the valleys generally.

Annotations in ink throughout.

Subject: Meteorology

Received 4 September 1848 / 5 October 1848. Read 25 January 1849. Communicated by Edward Sabine.

Written by Miller in Whitehaven [England].

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 5 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'On the depth of rain which falls in the same localities at different altitudes in the hilly districts of lancashire, cheshire by S. C. Homersham, C. E'.

Reference number

AP/31/11

Earliest possible date

08 September 1848

Physical description

Ink on paper

Page extent

4 pages

Format

Manuscript