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Francis John Welsh Whipple: Notes and Papers

Title	Francis John Welsh Whipple: Notes and Papers
Reference	GBR/0012/MS Add.8075
Creator	Whipple, Francis John Welsh, 1876-1943
Covering Dates	1844–1943
Extent and Medium	1 box
Repository	Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives

Content and context

Francis John Welsh Whipple (1876-1943) was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He worked as a mathematics teacher at his old school, 1899-1914, before becoming Superintendent of Instruments at the Meteorological Office, Kew Observatory, in 1914. He was Superintendent at the observatory, 1925-1939, and served as the President of the Royal Meteorological Society, 1936-1938.

The collection also contains correspondence of John Welsh (1824-1859), Fellow of the Royal Society, and Superintendent of Kew Observatory, 1852-1859, who was the godfather of G.M. Whipple (1842-1893), father of F.J.W. Whipple.

Observations, notes and drafts, with related correspondence.

Presented by Mr R.T.P. Whipple, only son of F.J.W. Whipple, 1975.

Access and Use

Please cite as Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives, Francis John Welsh Whipple: Notes and Papers, MS Add.8075

Index Terms

Meteorology

Meteorites

Mathematics

Whipple, Francis John Welsh (1876-1943) meteorologist

Bragg, Sir William Henry (1862-1942) knight, physicist

Brisbane, Sir Thomas Makdougall (1773-1860) baronet, colonial governor and astronomer

Broun, John Allan (1817-1879) physicist and meteorologist

Richardson, Lewis Fry (1881-1953) mathematician and pacifist

Welsh, John (1824-1859) meteorologist

Manuscripts/MS Add.8075 contains:

1-12

Notes and correspondence, mainly on meteorological subjects.

1912–1943

13-17

Miscellaneous drafts and notes, mainly on mathematical subjects.

1920–1923

18-20

Work on meteors.

1925

Correspondence of John Welsh. 3 letters to John Welsh from John Allan Broun, whom Welsh worked with in Edinburgh in 1853: 1851 (from Paris), 1853 and 1859 (from the Trevandrum Observatory, Travancore). 13 letters from John Welsh to his mother, 1844 and 1857-1858, from Scotland and the Western Islands. The later letters refer to the lung infection from which he died in 1859. 1 letter and sheet of observations, 1861, from Sir Thomas Makdougall-Brisbane, founder of the Mackerstoun Observatory, Kelso. 1 letter from Thomas Blakiston, 1857, from Hudson's Bay.

1844–1861