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William Borlase's contribution to eighteenth-century meteorology and climatology

J. Oliver B.A.Ph.D. University College of Swansea
Pages 275-317 | Published online: 22 Aug 2006

  • Jurin , James . 1723 . Invitatio ad Observationes Meteorologicas communi consilio instituendas . Phil. Trans. , 32 : 422 – 422 .
  • Manley , Gordon . 1953 . The Mean Temperature of Central England, 1698–1952 . Quart. J. Roy. Met., Soc. , 79 : 242 – 242 . and Temperature Trends in England 1698–1957, Archiv für Met., Geoph und Bioklim, 1959, Serie B, Band 9, Heft 3/4, 413.
  • Borlase , William . 1758 . The Natural History of Cornwall Oxford
  • Borlase , William . 1753 . Of a Storm of Thunder and Lightning, near Ludgvan in Cornwall . Phil. Trans. , 48 : 86 – 86 . ‘Of the Earthquake in the West Parts of Cornwall, July 15, 1757’, Phil. Trans., 1757, 50, 499; ‘On the late Mild Weather in Cornwall; and on the Quantity of Rain fallen there in the Year 1762’, Phil. Trans., 1763, 53, 27; ‘Of the Quantity of Rain fallen at Mount's Bay in Cornwall, and of the Weather in that Place’, Phil. Trans., 1764, 54, 59; ‘Meteorological Observations at Ludgvan in Mount's Bay, Cornwall’, Phil. Trans., 1768, 58, 89; ‘Meteorological Observations for 1769, made at Bridgewater, Somersetshire; and at Mount's Bay, Cornwall’, Phil. Trans., 1770, 60, 228; ‘Meteorological Observations for 1770 at Ludgvan in Mount's Bay, Cornwall’, Phil. Trans., 1771, 61, 195; ‘Meteorological Observations for 1771, at Ludgvan in Mount's Bay, Cornwall’, Phil. Trans., 1772, 62, 365.
  • Middleton , W.E.K. 1964 . The History of the Barometer 110 – 110 . Baltimore
  • Borlase . Original Letters , i Page not numbered. Borlase's correspondence is bound up in six volumes of ‘Original Letters’ received by him, and three volumes of first drafts or copies of letters written by him and referred to as ‘Outgoing Letters’. These manuscripts are in the Morrab Gardens Library, Penzance. Pagination had been carried out by someone in the past numbering the pages on the manuscripts in pencil. In the case of vol. i of the ‘Original Letters’ there was a mixture of letters, and not all of these were paginated.
  • Outgoing Letters , iii 278 – 278 .
  • Original Letters , i Page not numbered.
  • Outgoing Letters , iii 250 – 250 .
  • Outgoing Letters , iii 91 – 91 .
  • Outgoing Letters , iii 237 – 237 .
  • Outgoing Letters , iii 245 – 245 .
  • Original Letters , i Page not numbered
  • Original Letters , i Page not numbered.
  • Outgoing Letters , iii 269 – 269 .
  • Outgoing Letters , iii 237 – 237 .
  • Original Letters , iv Letter 321 (a).
  • Original Letters , i Page not numbered.
  • Outgoing Letters , iii 135 – 135 . Letter undated, possibly 10 March 1764.
  • Original Letters , i Page not numbered.
  • Outgoing Letters , iii 241 – 241 .
  • Outgoing Letters , iii 266 – 266 .
  • Simons , J. 1753 . Of the Barometer, and the State of the Weather at Dublin from March 7 1752 to February 1753 . Phil. Trans. , 48 : 230 – 230 .
  • See also a month by month record of weather conditions derived from William Borlase's weather journal in Oliver J. William Borlase's Weather Journal 1753–1772 Journ. R. Inst. Cornwall 1967 5 267 290
  • Original Letters , iv
  • Outgoing Letters , iii 269 – 269 .
  • Outgoing Letters , iii 247 – 247 .
  • Original Letters , i Page not numbered.
  • Original Letters , vi 219 – 219 .
  • Outgoing Letters , iii 104 – 104 .
  • Outgoing Letters , iii 221 – 221 .
  • Outgoing Letters , iii 120 – 120 .
  • Outgoing Letters , iii 237 – 237 .
  • Outgoing Letters , iii 238 – 238 .
  • Outgoing Letters , iii 241 – 241 .
  • Outgoing Letters , iii 241 – 241 .
  • Outgoing Letters , iii 243 – 243 .
  • Outgoing Letters , iii 247 – 247 .
  • Original Letters , i Page not numbered.
  • Original Letters , i Page not numbered.
  • Original Letters , vi 144 – 144 .
  • Original Letters , vi 179 – 179 .
  • Original Letters , vi 182 – 182 .
  • Original Letters , vi 186 – 186 .
  • Original Letters , vi 229 – 229 .
  • Outgoing Letters , iii 237 – 237 .
  • Outgoing Letters , iii 243 – 243 .
  • Outgoing Letters , iii 266 – 266 .
  • Original Letters , vi 194 – 194 .
  • Original Letters , iii 250 – 250 .
  • Outgoing Letters , iii 4 – 4 .
  • Outgoing Letters , iii 63 – 63 .
  • Borlase , William . 1758 . The Natural History of Cornwall 5 – 5 . Oxford
  • Borlase , William . 1758 . The Natural History of Cornwall 10 – 10 . Oxford
  • Outgoing Letters , iii 120 – 120 .
  • Manley . 1953 . The Mean Temperature of Central England, 1698–1952 . Quart J. Roy. Met., Soc. , 79 : 242 – 242 .
  • Original Letters , i Page not numbered.
  • Original Letters , vi 347 – 347 .
  • Outgoing Letters , iii 91 – 91 .
  • Original Letters , i Page not numbered.
  • Original Letters , vi 75 – 75 .
  • Original Letters , ii 179 – 179 .
  • Original Letters , vi 147 – 147 .
  • Glasspoole , J. 1928 . Two Centuries of rain . Met. Mag. , 63 : 1 – 1 .
  • Original Letters , vi 147 – 147 . Letter from Charles Lyttleton, 20 February 1766.
  • Original Letters , vi 132 – 132 . Letter from Charles Lyttleton, 30 July 1765.

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