Meteorological Committee and Council: Minutes and Reports

BJ 8

1867-1937

Minutes and reports of the Meteorological Committee and Meteorological Council which controlled the work of the Meteorological Office. The minutes contain internal indexes, consolidated for 1867 to 1905 in BJ 8/16

Public Record(s)

English

• Meteorological Office, Meteorological Committee, 1867-1877
• Meteorological Office, Meteorological Committee, 1905-1937
• Meteorological Office, Meteorological Council, 1877-1905

36 files and volumes

In 1866 the Meteorological Office was transferred from the Board of Trade and placed under the control of a committee appointed by the Royal Society which received a parliamentary grant-in-aid. In 1877 this unpaid committee was replaced by a salaried Meteorological Council, and then in 1905 by a Meteorological Committee chaired by the director of the office. During the First World War, other meteorological services developed to serve the Army, Navy and Air Force, and in 1919 the government decided to absorb them into a single Meteorological Office attached to the Air Ministry and managed by a reorganised Meteorological Committee. In 1937 the Admiralty assumed full control of the weather service for the Royal Navy.