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The WW1 daily weather records taken at Fasque House, Kinkardineshire, Scotland between January 1914 and December 1916 [ they form a unique and complete meterological record of the first 2 years of the war.] Quarto unpaginated printed tables, half leather with marbled sides The entries are all very legible and made in an official Meterological Register designed by J.Symons FRS. and revised by Hugh Robert Mill. Director of the British Rainfall Organisation. 1912. The Fasque Estate was owned by Sir John Gladstone 1st Baronet, of Fasque and Balfour and the nephew of William Ewart Gladstone the Liberal Prime Minister. He died their in December 1851, aged 86, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Sir Thomas Gladstone.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. [The Preeminent British Natural Science Journal] A long run of 105 volumes. Includes: vol. 36, 1887; v.37, Nov. 1887-Apr. 1888; v.38, May 1888-Oct. 1888; v.39, Nov. 1888-Apr. 1889; v.40, May 1889-Oct. 1889; v.41, 1889-1890; v.42, May 1890-Oct. 1890; v.43, 1890-1891; v.44, May 1891, Oct. 1891; v.45, 1891-1892; v.46, May 1892-Oct. 1892; v.47, 1892-1893; v.48, 1893; v.49, 1893-1894; v.50, 1894; v.51, 1894-1895; v.52, 1895; v.53, 1895-1896; v.54, 1896; v.55, 1896-1897; v.56, 1897; v.57, 1897-1898; v.58, 1898; v. 59, 1898-1899; volumes 60-140. Hardcover. Library stamps and markings. Shelf wear. 22 of the early volumes are bound in contemporary 3/4 leather over marbled boards that is deteriorating. Some boards detached from those volumes, rubbing, general wear to bindings. Sold with all faults. The other 73 volumes have good bindings in red cloth. Includes J. Thomson's famous essay "On the Cathode Rays" (vol. 55; cf. PMM 386) and Swinton's description of the electronic principles of television (vol. 78). Also includes Chemists William Ramsay and Frederick Soddy article that helium gas is produced by the radioactive decay of radium (1903). Interesting articles in this collection include: On the Mechanical Conditions of a Swarm of Meteorites; British Tertiary Volcanoes; Fritsch's Crustacean Fauna of the Chalk of Bohemia; New Zealand Scale Insect; The History of Ancient Civilization; The Northfleet Series Electric Tramway; Skeleton of Phenacodus; Three Days on the Summit of Mont Blanc; Whirlwinds, Waterspouts, Storms, and Rotating Spheres; Marine Biology and the Electric Light; The Surface Film of Water, and its Relation to the Life of Plants and Animals; The Discover of Australian-Like Mammals in South America; A New Form of Air Leyden; A Treatise on Zoology; Fossil Insects; On Some Points in the Early History of Astronomy; The Application of the Microscope to Physical and Chemical Investigations; The Extermination of the American Bison; The Anatomy of the Frog. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. …