Photocopied account of the sunshine record of Tiree by J Crichton, MA, BSc, FRSE.
Comparison by J. Crichton, MA, BSc, FRSE, of the amounts of sunshine experienced by Tiree, the Outer Isles, the east coast of Scotland, the south of England and the Scilly Isles. No actual figures given.
Scanned photograph of Cornaig Met Station in 1935.
Looking north at the Met Station at Cornaig Shool on 17/5/1935.
Photocopied letter from the Assistant Director of the Air Ministry Met Office dated 7/2/1925 to the Superintendent of the Edinburgh Met Office.
Letter from the Assistant Director of the Air Ministry Met Office dated 7/2/1925 to the Superintendent of the Edinburgh Met Office about a proposed visit to Tiree to assess the situation re a telegraph or telephone line to Cornaigmore.
Scanned photograph of Cornaig Met Station in 1935.
Looking north-east inside the Met Station enclosure at Cornaig Shool on 17/5/1935, with handwritten notes identifying the hydrograph and rain guage. (Duplicated in 2003.10.28 but without handwriting)
Photocopied letter to the Director of the Air Ministry Met Office dated 16/2/1925 suggesting an arrangement with the Local Education Authority to make meteorlogical recordings part of the headmaster`s duties.
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Scanned photograph of Cornaig Met Station in 1935.
View from the southwest corner of the Met Station enclosure at Cornaig Shool on 17/5/1935. with handwritten notes identifying the hydrograph, rain guage, sunshine recorder and thermometer and thermograph screens. (Duplicated in 2003.10.28 but without handwriting)
Photocopied letter to Mr A. H. Ross, headmaster of Cornaigmore School, dated 14/4/1925 from the Superintendent of Edinburgh Met Office about delaying the telegraphic weather reporting station on Tiree until guarantors can be found to bear 40% of the costs required by the Post Office.
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Four photographs of the Met Station at Cornaig in 1926.
Printed scans of four black & white photographs of the Metereological Station at Cornaig School in 1926: (1) thermometer and thermograph screens viewed form the south, with the schoolhouse in the background, (2) anemometer hut viewed from the northwest, with the school in the backgound, (3) anemometer hut viewed from the north, (4) unfinished interior of the anemometer hut.
Black and white photograph of Donald Davies with his oldest child, Donna.
Donald Davies, Tiree Met Office, with his oldest child Donna outside the café at Viewfield, Crossapol in 1955-6.
