Unpublished paper, 'On the meteorology of the English Lake District, including the results of experiments on the fall of rain at various heights up to 3166 feet above the sea level' by John Fletcher Miller

Description

Miller shares a series of meteorological observations. In the introductory remarks, he states that he determined the heights of the different rain-gauges above the level of the sea by means of an excellent Aneroid barometer (previously compared with a standard), and a standard barometer read simultaneously, or nearly so, at the sea-level.

Subject: Meteorology

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 6 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 meteorology of the Lake District, including the results of experiments on the fall of rain at various heights up to 3166 feet above the sea-level. Fourth paper. For the year 1850'.

A version of this paper was published by Miller in The Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh: Miller, John Fletcher. 'On the Meteorology of the English Lake District, including the Results of Experiments on the Fall of Rain, the Temperature, the Dew Point, and the Humidity of the Atmosphere, at various Heights on the Mountains, up to 3166 feet above the Sea Level,—for the years 1851, 1852, and 1853.' The Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh, volume 21, number 1 (1857), pp. 81-122.

Reference number

AP/33/18

Earliest possible date

28 February 1852

Physical description

Ink on paper

Page extent

11 pages

Format

Manuscript