Paper, 'Note on a preliminary comparison between the dates of cyclonic storms in Great Britain and those of magnetic disturbances at the Kew Observatory' by Balfour Stewart and William Lant Carpenter

Description

The authors write: 'We took the dates of thirty storms from Mr [Robert Henry] Scott’s paper entitled “The Equinoctial Gales; do they occur in the British Isles?” in the “Quarterly Journal of the Meteorological Society” for October, 1884, and by the kindness of Mr Whipple, of the Kew Observatory, were enabled to make the comparison mentioned above. Out of these 30 storms, in 23 cases there is a distinct magnetic disturbance, for the most part preceding the storm by somewhat more than a day. We do not, however, imagine that we have thus proved the fact of such a connexion, but think the results we have attained sufficient to justify us in pursuing the subject.'

Annotations in pencil and ink.

Subject: Meteorology / Magnetism

Received 11 February 1885. Read 19 February 1885.

A version of this paper was published in volume 38 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Note on a preliminary comparison between the dates of cyclonic storms in Great Britain and those of magnetic disturbances at the Kew Observatory'.

Reference number

PP/6/18

Earliest possible date

1885

Physical description

Ink and graphite pencil on paper

Page extent

1 page

Format

Manuscript