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Board of Trade and successors: Meteorological Department and successors: Registers...
Catalogue reference: BJ 10
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BJ 10
Registers recording the issue and return of barometers, hydrometers and thermometers to agents and ships by the Meteorological Department of the Board of Trade and its successors, the Meteorological Committee and the Meteorological Council.The...
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- BJ 10
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Title (The name of the record)
- Board of Trade and successors: Meteorological Department and successors: Registers of Instruments Supplied for Meteorological Purposes
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1854-c1915
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Description (What the record is about)
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Registers recording the issue and return of barometers, hydrometers and thermometers to agents and ships by the Meteorological Department of the Board of Trade and its successors, the Meteorological Committee and the Meteorological Council.
The series contains the five registers that have survived (the existence of a sixth is inferred). Each register provides dates of issue to agents, issue from agents to ships etc, return of instruments and remarks. The makeup of the registers is varied and complex. Dates in the registers are expressed with the last two digits of the year first; for example 10 May 1879 is rendered as 79.5.10, but it is uncertain that this convention was applied consistently.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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A number of the instruments referred to in these registers have been deposited with the Science Museum in London.
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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The register(s) of compasses does not survive and the register of instruments sold or returned was probably replaced by the surviving registers which record this information.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 6 volume(s)
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- Topics
- Trade and commerce
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- The arrangement of each register is described in detail in an unpublished catalogue to the papers of the Board of Trade Meteorological Department, entitled Origins of Meteorology, (1996) which is held at the Desk in the Research Enquires Room at the Public Record Office, Kew.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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Registers of barometers, thermometers, hydrometers and compasses, together with a register of instruments sold or returned, were included in a list of office books that appeared as an appendix to the report of the Meteorological Department to the Board of Trade, 1857. The instruments were lent to shipping agents, local port authorities and coastguards for the recording of weather observations.
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2873/
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