Referee's report by an unknown referee [Lethes?], on two papers, [attributed] 'A meteorological journal for 1840, kept at Allenheads, Northumberland, with a few remarks on the rain-gauge' by William Walton, and 'On the localities affected by hoar-frost, the peculiar currents of air excited by it, and the temperature during its occurrence at high and low stations' by James Farquharson
Reference number: RR/1bis/50
Date: 1841
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First paper:
Not recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. The paper may be abbreviated for the Proceedings. Refers to Balfour Phillips.
Subject: Meteorology
[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London']
Second paper:
Not recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. The results have already been communicated by another learned society.
Subject: Meteorology
[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London']
- Reference number
- RR/1bis/50
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- 1841
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- 2 pages
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Referee's report by an unknown referee [Lethes?], on two papers, [attributed] 'A meteorological journal for 1840, kept at Allenheads, Northumberland, with a few remarks on the rain-gauge' by William Walton, and 'On the localities affected by hoar-frost, the peculiar currents of air excited by it, and the temperature during its occurrence at high and low stations' by James Farquharson, 1841, RR/1bis/50, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_1bis_50/referees-report-by-an-unknown-referee-lethes-on-two-papers-attributed-a-meteorological-journal-for-1840-kept-at-allenheads-northumberland-with-a-few-remarks-on-the-rain-gauge-by-william-walton-and-on-the-localities-affected-by-hoar-frost-the-peculiar-currents-of-air-excited-by-it-and-the-temperature-during-its-occurrence-at-high-and-low-stations-by-james-farquharson, accessed on 15 January 2025
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A meteorological journal for 1840, kept at Allenheads, Northumberland, with a few remarks on the rain-gauge External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1843
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1837.0155
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On the localities affected by hoar-frost, the peculiar currents of air excited by it, and the temperature during its occurrence at high and low stations External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1843
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1837.0152
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Unpublished paper, 'On the localities affected by hoar-frost; the peculiar currents of air excited by it; and the temperature, during its occurrence, at high and low stations' by James Farquharson
Creator: James Farquharson Reference number: AP/25/7 -
Unpublished observations, 'A few extracts from a meteorological journal kept at Allenheads in the county of Northumberland [England]' by William Walton
Creator: William Walton Reference number: AP/23/42
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