Meteorological Collection (page 2)

Average January Temperature, 1923. Creator: Unknown
Average January Temperature, 1923. From " Australia, New Zealand and Oceania in Pictures", by H. Clive Barnard, M.A. Blitt. [A. & C. Black, Limited, London, 1923]

Winds and Rainfall. - May to October, 1923. Creator: Unknown
Winds and Rainfall. - May to October, 1923. From " Australia, New Zealand and Oceania in Pictures", by H. Clive Barnard, M.A. Blitt. [A. & C. Black, Limited, London, 1923]

Balloon altitude record, 1901, (1932). Creator: Unknown
Balloon altitude record, 1901, (1932). On 31 July 1901, German meteorologists Arthur Berson and Reinhard Sü ring reached a height of 10, 800 meters (6.7 miles) above sea level

North Pole total ozone maps with meteorological chart, March 1979. Creator: NASA
North Pole total ozone maps with meteorological chart, March 1979

Ice Crystals on roof of the Hut Porch, c1908, (1909). Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922) made three expeditions to the Antarctic

Ice Crystals Formed on the Line of a Fish Trap, c1908, (1909). Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922) made three expeditions to the Antarctic

Blocks of ice... to ascertain the rate of evaporation, 1908, (1909)
Blocks of ice hung in the wind at the Winter Quarters in order to ascertain the rate of evaporation, 1908, (1909). Meteorological research

Another View of the Hut in Summer, c1908, (1909)
Another View of the Hut in Summer. The meteorological station can be seen on the extreme right, c1908, (1909). Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922)

Professor David Standing By Mawsons Anemometer, c1908, (1909). Professor Tannatt William Edgeworth David (1858-1934), was Director of Scientific Staff on the Nimrod expedition

A Blizzard with Gusts - July 23rd, 1911, (1913). Artist: George Clarke Simpson
A Blizzard with Gusts - July 23rd, 1911, (1913). Pressure tube anemometer record. The final expedition of British Antarctic explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912)

A Blizzard - March 12th, 1911, (1913). Artist: George Clarke Simpson
A Blizzard - March 12th, 1911, (1913). Pressure tube anemometer record. The final expedition of British Antarctic explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912)

Dr. Simpson in his Laboratory, 21 December 1911, (1913). Artist: Herbert Ponting
Dr. Simpson in his Laboratory, 21 December 1911, (1913). Meteorologist George Simpson (1878-1965) took detailed measurements in order to predict the best possible conditions for Scotts journey to

Dr. Wilson Watching the First Rays of Sunlight Being Recorded, c1911, (1913)
Dr. Wilson Watching the First Rays of Sunlight Being Recorded After the Long Winter Night, c1911, (1913). The final expedition of British Antarctic explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912)

Sudden Commencements of Blizzards. April 30th, 1911. May 31st, 1911. September 1st, 1911. (1913). The final expedition of British Antarctic explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912)

Dr. Wilson and Lieut. Bowers Reading The Ramp Thermometer, c1911, (1913). Artist
Dr. Wilson and Lieut. Bowers Reading The Ramp Thermometer in the Winter Night, - 40° Fahr. (A flashlight photograph), c1911, (1913)

Dr. Simpson Sending Up a Balloon, 1911, (1913). Artist: Herbert Ponting
Dr. Simpson Sending Up a Balloon, 1911, (1913). Meteorologist George Simpson (1878-1965) took detailed measurements in order to predict the best possible conditions for Scotts journey to the Pole

Birdie Bowers Reading The Thermometer on the Ramp, June 6th, 1911, (1913). Artist
Birdie Bowers Reading The Thermometer on the Ramp, June 6th, 1911, (1913). Lieutenant Henry Birdie Bowers (1883-1912) died on the way back from the South Pole with Scott and Wilson

The British Isles and France, Belgium and Holland at Noon in mid-summer, 1935
The British Isles and France, Belgium and Holland at Noon in mid-summer - What Britain Looks Like From The Sun, 1935. From The Popular Science Educator, Volume 2, edited by Charles Ray

The British Isles and Northern Europe at Noon in mid-winter, 1935
The British Isles and Northern Europe at Noon in mid-winter - What Britain Looks Like From The Sun, 1935. From The Popular Science Educator, Volume 2, edited by Charles Ray

Alto-Cumulo-Castellatus - A Dozen of the Principal Cloud Forms In The Sky, 1935
Alto-Cumulo-Castellatus - A Dozen of the Principal Cloud Forms and How They Appear In The Sky, 1935. From The Popular Science Educator, Volume 2, edited by Charles Ray. [The Amalgamated Press, Ltd

Stratus - A Dozen of the Principal Cloud Forms In The Sky, 1935
Stratus - A Dozen of the Principal Cloud Forms and How They Appear In The Sky, 1935. From The Popular Science Educator, Volume 2, edited by Charles Ray. [The Amalgamated Press, Ltd. London]

Cumulo-Nimbus - A Dozen of the Principal Cloud Forms In The Sky, 1935
Cumulo-Nimbus - A Dozen of the Principal Cloud Forms and How They Appear In The Sky, 1935. From The Popular Science Educator, Volume 2, edited by Charles Ray. [The Amalgamated Press, Ltd. London]

Cumulus - A Dozen of the Principal Cloud Forms In The Sky, 1935
Cumulus - A Dozen of the Principal Cloud Forms and How They Appear In The Sky, 1935. From The Popular Science Educator, Volume 2, edited by Charles Ray. [The Amalgamated Press, Ltd. London]

Nimbus - A Dozen of the Principal Cloud Forms In The Sky, 1935
Nimbus - A Dozen of the Principal Cloud Forms and How They Appear In The Sky, 1935. From The Popular Science Educator, Volume 2, edited by Charles Ray. [The Amalgamated Press, Ltd. London]

Alto-Stratus - A Dozen of the Principal Cloud Forms In The Sky, 1935
Alto-Stratus - A Dozen of the Principal Cloud Forms and How They Appear In The Sky, . From The Popular Science Educator, Volume 2, edited by Charles Ray. [The Amalgamated Press, Ltd. London]

Alto-Cumulus - A Dozen of the Principal Cloud Forms In The Sky, 1935
Alto-Cumulus - A Dozen of the Principal Cloud Forms and How They Appear In The Sky, 1935. From The Popular Science Educator, Volume 2, edited by Charles Ray. [The Amalgamated Press, Ltd. London]

Cirro-Cumulus - A Dozen of the Principal Cloud Forms In The Sky, 1935
Cirro-Cumulus - A Dozen of the Principal Cloud Forms and How They Appear In The Sky, 1935. From The Popular Science Educator, Volume 2, edited by Charles Ray. [The Amalgamated Press, Ltd. London]

The British Isles and Northern Europe at 6am on mid-summer day, 1935
The British Isles and Northern Europe at six o clock in the morning on mid-summer day - What Britain Looks Like From The Sun, 1935. From The Popular Science Educator, Volume 2, edited by Charles Ray

The British Isles and Northern Europe at 6pm on midsummers day, 1935
The British Isles and Northern Europe at six o clock in the evening on midsummers day - What Britain Looks Like From The Sun, . From The Popular Science Educator, Volume 2, edited by Charles Ray

The British Isles and Northern Europe at Noon in spring or Autumn, 1935
The British Isles and Northern Europe at Noon in spring or Autumn - What Britain Looks Like From The Sun, 1935. From The Popular Science Educator, Volume 2, edited by Charles Ray

Lenticular Cloud Banks - A Dozen of the Principal Cloud Forms In The Sky, 1935
Lenticular Cloud Banks - A Dozen of the Principal Cloud Forms and How They Appear In The Sky, 1935. From The Popular Science Educator, Volume 2, edited by Charles Ray. [The Amalgamated Press, Ltd

Strato-Cumulus - A Dozen of the Principal Cloud Forms In The Sky, 1935
Strato-Cumulus - A Dozen of the Principal Cloud Forms and How They Appear In The Sky, 1935. From The Popular Science Educator, Volume 2, edited by Charles Ray. [The Amalgamated Press, Ltd. London]

Cirrus - A Dozen of the Principal Cloud Forms In The Sky, 1935
Cirrus - A Dozen of the Principal Cloud Forms and How They Appear In The Sky, 1935. From The Popular Science Educator, Volume 2, edited by Charles Ray. [The Amalgamated Press, Ltd. London]

Children taking meteorological observations, Shrewsbury House Open Air School, London, 1908
Children taking meteorological observations, Shrewsbury House Open Air School, Shooters Hill, London, 1908

View of the River Thames during the 1683-1684 frost fair, London, 1716. Eating, drinking and entertainment booths can be seen stretching across the ice

View of a frost fair on the River Thames looking towards London Bridge, London, c1715. Winters in Britain were often particularly cold in the 17th and 18th centuries

An Airship Weather Centre, 1927. From The Wonder Book of Aircraft, edited by Harry Golding. [Ward, Lock & Co, Limited, London & Melbourne, 1927]

Witch raising a storm, 1562. From Olaus Magnus Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus, Antwerp. (Colorised black and white print)

Bernard Nordahl, 1893, (1897). Bernard Nordahl (born in 1862) was a Norwegian explorer who took part to the three year expedition (1893-1896) aboard the Fram led by Fridtjof Nansen

Sheet 3, from a portfolio of alphabets, 1929. From 20 Alphabets and Instructive Plates for Pen & Ink. [James Dorn, London, 1929]

Studying the formation of clouds from his attic, c1918. The early theorist of evolution, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829), suggested a way of categorising clouds

Albert Borlase Armitage, Scottish polar explorer, c1894-c1897 (1899). Artist: Frederick George Jackson
Albert Borlase Armitage, Scottish polar explorer, c1894-c1897 (1899). Armitage (1864-1943) using a sextant while on the Jackson-Harmsworth Expedition to Franz-Josef Land in the Arctic

Anemometer at the Kew Observatory, 1866. A print from Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts and Manufactures, Vol III, Virtue and Co, City Road and Ivy Lane, London, 1866

Alexander von Humboldt, Prussian naturalist and explorer, (1900). Humboldts (1769-1859) interests included geophysics, geology and botany and he is sometimes called the founder of ecology

Alexander von Humboldt, German author, naturalist and explorer, 1847. Artist: Hermann Biow
Alexander von Humboldt, German author, naturalist and explorer, 1847. Humboldts (1769-1859) interests included geophysics, geology and botany and he is sometimes called the founder of ecology

Autumn view of the Crimea, 1884. Artist: Grigori Grigoryevich Myasoedov
Autumn view of the Crimea, 1884. Myasoedov, Grigori Grigoryevich (1834-1911). Found in the collection of the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Julius Ferdinand Hann, Austrian meteorologist, c1921
Julius Ferdinand Hann, c1921. Portrait of Hann (1839-1921) from a commemorative medal issued by the Austrian Meteorological Society

John Dalton, English chemist, c1834 (1902). As a Quaker, Dalton (1766-1844) could not attend an English university, so supported himself by teaching

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