Meteorology Collection
1748-1822
(ca. 30 items)

551.5 M56

© American Philosophical Society
105 South Fifth Street * Philadelphia, PA 19106-3386
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Table of contents Abstract
Featuring the work of at least ten different authors, this collection includes several, unrelated meteorological observations from the mid-18th Century to the early 19th Century. While the majority of these records depict weather patterns in Philadelphia, there are also descriptions for Delaware, New England, London, and South America among others.

Scope and content
This collection contains miscellaneous and unrelated meteorological observations from the mid-18th Century to the early 19th Century profiling locations as diverse as Philadelphia, South America, and London. The majority of the records contain daily charts noting the prominent weather indicators, some of which include remarks by the respective authors.

Administrative information
Restrictions
None.

Provenance
Presented by the authors and others, various dates.

Preferred citation
Cite as: Meteorology Collection, American Philosophical Society.

Processing information
Recatalogued by RWS, 2006.

Alternate formats
Collection also available on microfilm (Film 1467, Reel 1).

Added entries
Subjects
  • Meteorology - Delaware - Observations
  • Meteorology - New England - Observations
  • Meteorology - Observations
  • Meteorology - Pennsylvania
  • Meteorology - South America - Observations
  • Weather

    • Contributors
  • Adair, William
  • Curson, Samuel
  • Dunbar, William, 1749-1810
  • Haines, Reuben, ca. 1786-1831
  • Hazard, Samuel, 1784-1870
  • Legaux, Peter, 1748-1827
  • Madison, James, 1751-1836
  • Pemberton, Phineas
  • Reichel, Charles Gotthold, 1751-1825
  • Williams, Samuel, 1743-1817

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    Contact information
    American Philosophical Society
    105 South Fifth Street
    Philadelphia, PA 19106-3386
    [http://www.amphilsoc.org/]

    ©2006


    Detailed inventory

    		 I. Pemberton, Phineas.
    Meteorological observations taken in and around Philadelphia     		1748-1776 15 notebooks

    		II. Pemberton, Phineas.
    Meteorological journals     		1758, 1767, 1768


    		III. Pemberton, Phineas



    		Account of barometer and thermometer at Bridgewater, England and Philadelphia 1767-1768


    		Meteorological observations, taken at London, England (extracts) 1751-1761


    		Meteorological observations, taken at Maryland 1753-1754


    		Meteorological observations, unidentified location 1749, 1766-1767


    		Meteorological observations, taken at Philadelphia 1770, 1774, 1777-1778


    		IV. Meteorological observations, taken at Philadelphia 1768


    		V. The highest and lowest stations of the barometer and thermometer in London 1771


    		VI. Williams, Samuel.
    Meteorological observations taken in New England, and account of a hurricane in New England     		1771, 1773


    		VII. Adair, William.
    Meteorological observations at Lewes, DE.     		1773-1775


    		VIII. Tables of meteorological observations taken at Philadelphia 1773-1777


    		IX. Reichel, Charles Gotthold.
    Meteorological observations, taken at Nazareth, PA.     		1787-1790


    		X. Madison, James.
    Meteorological observations     		1798-1802


    		XI. Dunbar, William.
    Meteorological observations, sent to John Vaughan, Natchez     		1803


    		XII. Hazard, Samuel.
    Observations on the warmth of the sea water, etc. from Smyrna to Philadelphia     		1815


    		XIII. Curson, Samuel.
    Barometrical observations made in South America     		[1817]


    		XIV. Legaux, Peter.
    Meteorological observations made at Spring Mill, PA     		1820-1821


    		XV. Haines, Reuben.
    Meteorological observations made at Germantown, PA     		1820-1821


    		XVI. Remarks on meteorological observations [ca. 1822]