Fonds TH - Papers of Major-General Thomas Hardwicke

This manuscript was presented to the Royal Asiatic Society on 16 June 1827 by Hardwicke. This is recorded in both the manuscript and the Society's Donations Register for that period. On that date Hardwicke also donated "Hayters report upon the Herculaneum MSS", London 1811, and "Wards view of the history etc of the Hindoos", Serampore 1815. The register records that the "meteorological diary was kept by General Hardwicke at Dum Dum 1816 to 1819".

There is a single item in these Papers. This is the "Abstracts of Meteorological Diary for the Years 1816, 1817, 1818, 1819. Taken Eight Miles North-East of Fort William Calcutta". This a handwritten journal of daily weather conditions divided into monthly pages giving a general monthly summary, variations of the winds, thermometer, barometer and hygrometer readings, prevailing wind directions and remarks concerning the days' weather patterns. The manuscript is on foolscap sheets bound into a hardcover journal. The book is in fragile conditions, its boards have become separated and some of the pages are only loosely attached into the whole. Within the book is a loose sheet of paper on which wind calculations have been written.

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Hardwicke wrote several books some of which are held within our Collections. We also have a painting of a Sheep-eater (Head cat.01.003) which was commissioned by Hardwicke and presented to the RAS in 1832. Full details of these other items can be found in our Library catalogue: https://ras.koha-ptfs.co.uk/.