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Diagram, 'Royal Society's standard barometer' by [James Hudson]

Reference number: PT/73/15/33

Date: 1831

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Plate 23 showing a chart of mean daily observations in summer and winter from a standard barometer that was present in the hall of the Royal Society. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Ink inscription that is struck out at top of chart reads 'Summer and winter capitals'. Left of the chart, an inscription reads 'My 3rd Plate (4 to size)'. Not signed. Watermarked 'B&T Sweetapple 1827'. The manuscript for this paper is wanting.

Subject: Meteorology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'Hourly observations on the barometer; with experimental investigations into the phenomena of its periodical oscillation' by James Hudson.

Read to the Royal Society on 21 June 1832.

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PT/73/15/33
Earliest possible date
1831
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
1 page
Format
Diagram

Creator name

James Hudson

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James Hudson, Diagram, 'Royal Society's standard barometer' by [James Hudson], 1831, PT/73/15/33, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_73_15_33/diagram-royal-societys-standard-barometer-by-james-hudson, accessed on 15 September 2026

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