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Title: 1838. Observations made at London for 25 successive hours commencing at 6 a.m. of the 21st September, and ending 6 a.m. on the 22nd. London Clock Time. By Robert Carr Woods, Esq. Mem. Geog. Soc., Paris, Royal Acad. Sci. Lisbon, &c. &c.
Identifier(s): text:345; APSimg6541; Goodman Number: 178; 973 C683 No. 469
Description: Meteorological observations of London for a twenty-five hour period.
Creator: Woods, Robert Carr
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Meteorology; Meteorology; Weather; Clouds
Date: [1838]

Title: Observations meteorologiques faites a Springmill, 1787-1800 ... Part I; Part I
Identifier(s): text:345725
Description: One of two volumes that contains the meteorological records Peter Legaux kept for fourteen years in Spring Mill, Pennsylvania. One portion contains his correspondence to the American Philosophical Society in which he explains his methods for recording data. The materials dated 1801 were addressed to Thomas Jefferson, then president of the APS. The second part of the collection contains the raw data. Also included in the data collection are records from the 1740s to the 1770s for Philadelphia that are believed to be done by Phineas [possibly Israel] Pemberton. One chart is addressed to Benjamin Franklin, "président de l'Etat de Pennsylvanie et président de la société phylosophique...1789." All or most of the material was sent to Thomas Jefferson as president of the United States and of the American Philosophical Society.; Includes an English translation of the above Observations and copies made by M. Legaux of tables 2-5.
Creator: Legaux, Peter, 1748-1827et al
Subject: Science and technology; Meteorology; Meteorology--Observations; Weather; Legaux, Peter, 1748-1827; American Philosophical Society
Date: 1801-02-25; 2021

Title: St. John's, Newfoundland.... Table shewing the mean temperature, as also the mean height of the barometer in each month in the 8 years, ending 31st December, 1841--with the extremes of each, and the days on which such extremes occurred. Compiled from observations made by Joseph Templeman, of the Colonial Secretary's Office
Identifier(s): text:1747; APSimg6735; Goodman Number: 176; 973 C683 No. 256
Description: Table showing the average temperature and barmetric pressure for an eight-year period in Newfoundland, Canada.; Oversized.
Creator: Templeman, Joseph
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Meteorology; Meteorology; Temperature; Barometers; Weather
Date: ca. 1842

Title: Sir[,] I take the liberty to inclose to you the proceedings instituted under the authority of the University of the State of New
Identifier(s): text:597; APSimg6749; Goodman Number: 177
Description: Cover letter and four-page document giving resolutions of the Regents of the University of the State of New York regarding meteorological observations. Requires the 56 institutions under its auspices to begin a regular, systematic program of meteorological observation and offers detailed instructions on the exact procedures required to carry out those observations. Autograph signature of S[imeon] DeWitt who sent the document to John Vaughan on November 24, 1825.; Located in folder: DeWitt, Simeon to John Vaughan. 1825 Nov. 24.
Creator: University of the State of New York
Source: American Philosophical Society Archives, Manuscript Communications (APS.Archives); http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/mole/a/apsmc.xml
Subject: Broadsides; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Meteorology; Meteorology; Weather; Temperature
Date: 1825

Title: Figures to denote the force of the wind. [Reverse side:] Letters to denote the state of the weather.
Identifier(s): text:232; APSimg6466; Goodman Number: 165; 973 C683 No. 476
Description: System of symbols to record meteorological data sent by Capt. F[rancis] Beaufort, hydrographer to the British Admiralty, to William Vaughan who, in turn, presented it to the American Philosophical Society, January 14, 1839.
Creator: Beaufort, Francis, Sir, 1774-1857
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Meteorology; Meteorology; Symbols
Date: [ca. 1839]

Title: From the meteorological observations at Gloster Place, two miles south of Natchez. ...Mean temperature of each and every month in the year, and of every year from 1810 to 1818
Identifier(s): text:259; APSimg6468; Goodman Number: 175; 973 C683 No. 305
Description: Signed by Winthrop Sergeant
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Meteorology; Meteorology; Rain; Temperature
Date: [ca. 1819]

Title: Meteorological observations made at Springmill, 13 miles NNW. from Philadelphia, L. 40°4' N. Month of May, 1789
Identifier(s): text:606; APSimg6611; Goodman Number: 170
Description: One of the regular monthly meteorological observation tables kept by Peter Legaux, a Frenchman who attempted to set up a vineyard outside of Philadelphia. Legaux's observations were widely disseminated in the Columbian Magazine and in the form of broadsides which may have been offprints from that publication. In this greatly expanded meteorological table, Legaux also includes a short description of the "prevailing sickness" of the month. ; See also Goodman #169, 171.
Creator: Legaux, Peter, 1748-1827
Source: American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives); http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/mole/a/apsmc.xml
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Meteorology; Meteorology; Weather
Date: 1789

Title: Matthew Fontaine Maury to Robert Hare, 1852 January 17
Identifier(s): text:223349
Description: Meteorological questions.
Subject: Maury, Matthew Fontaine, 1806-1873; Meteorology; Hare, Robert, 1781-1858
Date: 1852-01-17

Title: Arctic Expedition: Meteorlogical Observations
Identifier(s): text:190612
Source: Elisha Kent Kane Papers (Mss.B.K132); https://search.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.K132-ead.xml
Subject: Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857.; Arctic regions; Meteorology--Observations
Date: 1853-1854

Title: Abstract of a Meteorological Register Kept at the Cape of Good Hope, 1800-1805
Identifier(s): text:263185
Description: D. 20 leaves.
Subject: Good Hope, Cape of (South Africa : Cape); Meteorology
Date: 1800-1805

Title: Meteorological observations, 1798-1802
Identifier(s): text:319010
Creator: Madison, James, 1751-1836et al; Madison, Dolley, 1768-1849et al
Subject: Meteorology; Meteorology--Observations; Weather; Citizen Science; Climatology; Birds -- Migration -- United States.; Natural history; Science and technology; Agriculture
Date: 1836-1858; 2021

Title: Meteorological observations, 1840
Identifier(s): text:346791
Description: Michael Jacobs was a Pennsylvania Lutheran clergyman and educator; he taught mathematics and natural sciences at Pennsylvania (now Gettysburg) College, 1832-1866. This item contains observations made at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
Creator: Jacobs, M. (Michael), 1808-1871et al
Subject: Science and technology; Meteorology; Meteorology--Observations; Weather; Civil War; Jacobs, M. (Michael), 1808-1871; Gettysburg College; Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: 1840; 2021

Title: Meteorological observations, 1848-1860
Identifier(s): text:346552
Description: Michael Jacobs was a Pennsylvania Lutheran clergyman and educator; he taught mathematics and natural sciences at Pennsylvania (now Gettysburg) College, 1832-1866. This item contains observations made at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
Creator: Jacobs, M. (Michael), 1808-1871et al
Subject: Science and technology; Meteorology; Meteorology--Observations; Weather; Civil War; Jacobs, M. (Michael), 1808-1871; Gettysburg College; Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: 1848-1860; 2021

Title: Meteorological observations, 1839-1846
Identifier(s): text:346700
Description: Michael Jacobs was a Pennsylvania Lutheran clergyman and educator; he taught mathematics and natural sciences at Pennsylvania (now Gettysburg) College, 1832-1866. This item contains observations made at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
Creator: Jacobs, M. (Michael), 1808-1871et al
Subject: Science and technology; Meteorology; Meteorology--Observations; Weather; Civil War; Jacobs, M. (Michael), 1808-1871; Gettysburg College; Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: 1839-1846; 2021

Title: Meteorological observations, 1846-1848
Identifier(s): text:346727
Description: Michael Jacobs was a Pennsylvania Lutheran clergyman and educator; he taught mathematics and natural sciences at Pennsylvania (now Gettysburg) College, 1832-1866. This item contains observations made at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
Creator: Jacobs, M. (Michael), 1808-1871et al
Subject: Science and technology; Meteorology; Meteorology--Observations; Weather; Civil War; Jacobs, M. (Michael), 1808-1871; Gettysburg College; Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: 1846-1848; 2021

Title: Circular of the Joint Committee on Meteorology of the American Philosophical Society and Franklin Institute
Identifier(s): text:607; APSimg6609; Goodman Number: 168
Description: Requests receiver to transmit answers to questions regarding a storm which struck Philadelphia between March 16 and 19, 1838, to William Hamilton, actuary of the Franklin Institute. Signed in type by Robley Dunglison, chairman of the committee and Gouverneur Emerson, secretary. Manuscript note signed by J[ames] P. Espy and added to bottom of the circular requests reader to transmit the circular "to some persons in your district whom you think most likely to furnish the desired information."
Creator: American Philosophical Society and Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.). Joint Committee on Meteorology
Source: American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/APS.Archives-ead.xml
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Meteorology; American Philosophical Society; Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.); Meteorology; Storms
Date: March 20, 1838

Title: Details of the rise and fall of the Mississippi River at Natchez landing, for more than twenty years, by a gentleman who arrived there in August of 1798, and has been since resident in its vicinity
Identifier(s): text:362; APSimg6540; Goodman Number: 174; 973 C683 No. 309
Description: Appears to have been separately printed from a newspaper article. Sergeant's observations of the Mississippi River for the years 1798-1818 were made while he was territorial governor of Mississippi (1798-1801) and then as plantation owner when his reappointment was denied by Jefferson.
Creator: Sergeant, Winthrop, 1753-1820
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Meteorology; Meteorology; Mississippi River - Description and travel
Date: ca. 1819

Title: Meteorological observations, 1842-1843
Identifier(s): text:346763
Description: Michael Jacobs was a Pennsylvania Lutheran clergyman and educator; he taught mathematics and natural sciences at Pennsylvania (now Gettysburg) College, 1832-1866. This item contains observations made at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
Creator: Jacobs, M. (Michael), 1808-1871et al
Subject: Science and technology; Meteorology; Meteorology--Observations; Weather; Civil War; Jacobs, M. (Michael), 1808-1871; Gettysburg College; Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: 1842-1843; 2021

Title: New-Brunswick has been visited by a frightful tornado. ...Charged with that mournful duty by their fellow citizens, the undersigned have made a survey of the devastation, and ascertained, as nearly as practicable, the amount of the positive and direct damage sustained.
Identifier(s): text:1486; APSimg6467; Goodman Number: 166; 973 C683 No. 181
Description: Requests pecuniary aid for the victims of this tornado which completely destroyed 130 homes and damaged numerous others. Signed in type by J. J. Janeway, G. S. Webb, F. Richmond, D. Fitz Randolph, and Miles C. Smith. The APS Archives also contain a report of this tornado made by J. J. Janeway, April 23, 1835.
Creator: Janeway, J. J. (Jacob Jones), 1774-1858
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Meteorology; Tornadoes; Fund raising
Date: 1835

Title: Rittenhouse, David to Benjamin Franklin, 1780 December 31; Rittenhouse, David, 1732-1796. to Benjamin Franklin
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:10227
Description: David Rittenhouse writes to Benjamin Franklin about a meteor that was observed in Philadelphia, Williamsburg, and other places. Rittenhouse describes how he calculated where the meteor had landed along with describing its qualities. Rittenhouse conveys his relief that it fell in an uninhabited place as he believed that it would have been devastating to human life if it had landed near Philadelphia or elsewhere.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Lived Experience; Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Social life and customs; Meteorology--Observations
Date: 1780-12-31; 2022