Meteorological Records of Charles Piazzi Smyth

Scope and Content

Records of astronomical, barometric and meteorological readings taken by Smyth, largely using the weather station and observatory in York Museum Gardens. The collection contains a comprehensive set of daily and summary weather readings for York. Also included are 3 photograph albums consisting of cloud formation images, taken from Smyth's home in Ripon in the 1890s.

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Access Information

Open

Material is available subject to the usual terms and conditions of access to Archives and Local History collections.

Custodial History

Transferred from Yorkshire Museum 1971.