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XX.—The Meteorology of Edinburgh

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2012

Robert Cockburn Mossman
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Since the foundation of the Scottish Meteorological Society in 1856, a mass of information regarding the climate of Edinburgh has been reduced and published in the Society's Journal from time to time, the data being furnished to that body by its local observers. In addition, numerous unreduced manuscript books of meteorological observations which extend back to the year 1764 are further available for discussion. In 1861 the late Principal Forbes communicated to this Society a paper on the “Climate of Edinburgh,” two elements of climate being alone discussed, viz., temperature and rainfall, and for a period of but forty years. The reduction of the observations taken virtually without a break during the past 132 years was therefore desirable for the discussion of cyclical and other weather changes, for which records covering a long period are absolutely necessary. Through the kindness of the Councils of the Scottish Meteorological Society, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and the Royal Meteorological Society, the loan of the manuscript registers kept in Edinburgh and its immediate vicinity was obtained.

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Research Article
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Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 38 , Issue 3 , 1897 , pp. 681 - 755
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1897

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page 681 note * Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin., vol. xxii.

page 683 note * Since the above table was compiled, Mr G. J. Symons, F.R.S., has drawn my attention to a daily register of pressure and temperature kept at Edinburgh from 1847–51 by Kenneth M'Kenzie. See Quart. Jour. of Agriculture, July 1852, and Farmers' Note Book, No. xxvi. p. 402.

page 686 note * This locality is now extinct, but it was in the vicinity of George IV. Bridge.

page 686 note † Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin., vol. xxii. pp. 348–49.

page 695 note * Vol. x. p. 159.

page 695 note † Vol. xvii. p. 176.