RT Journal Article
T1 Old weather
A1 Professor Sally Shuttleworth
YR 2015
VO 3
IS Spring 2015
AB 
NO The project was born out of a collaboration between Dr Beau Lotto and Dave Strudwick, former headteacher of Blackawton Primary School. For further details about the project see www.lottolab.org/articles/blackawtonbees.asp (accessed 15 April 2015). 
NO The project is run by Sally Shuttleworth and Chris Lintott at Oxford, and Gowan Dawson at the University of Leicester. 
NO This account is taken from Hanny van Arkel’s own website, www.hannysvoorwerp.com (accessed 15 April 2015). For further details see http://hannysvoorwerp.zooniverse.org (accessed 15 April 2015). Scientific papers arising from the discovery include Lintott et al., 2009. 
NO For a Victorian heroic account see Proctor (1875). Proctor does, however, include details from Horrocks’s own account, which notes that his friend William Crabtree also watched the transit, separately, from his own home. 
NO Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander, the eminent Prussian astronomer, published his ‘An appeal to the friends of astronomy’ in Schumacher’s Astronomical Yearbook for 1844. 
NO For more on the history of these ‘human computers’ see Grier (2005) and also Jones and Boyd (1971). 
NO For details of Annie Jump Cannon’s work on variable stars see Hogg (1984). Her papers are held at Harvard University, see http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~hua12001 (accessed 16 April 2015). 
NO ‘Decrease of rainfall with elevation’ in the 1871 volume, pp 132–40, for example, comprised letters, with diagrams and calculations, from John Thrustans, P P Pennant, J M Du Port, T E Crallan and George F Burder, who were all engaging with each other and previous correspondents in the debate. Symons’s magazine provides the space for their interaction, but he does not intervene, until he suggests that the discussion should be curtailed. In response to protests, and another deluge of material, he takes back the suggestion, agrees to let the debate run, and extends the length of the magazine accordingly (see p 179 and a further collection of contributions on pp 179–88). 
NO See www.port.ac.uk/uopnews/2013/04/09/economics-of-crowd-sourcing-under-spotlight (accessed 16 April 2015). Chris Lintott is a co-investigator on the project. 
NO See, for example, Transactions of the Sanitary Institute of Great Britain, 4 (1882–83), in which Symons outlines the curriculum and recommended reading for the exams. 
NO See www.metoffice.gov.uk/archive/british-rainfall (accessed 16 April 2015).
PB The Science Museum Group
SN 2054-5770
LA eng
DO 10.15180/150304
UL http://journal.sciencemuseum.org.uk/browse/issue-03/old-weather/
CR Anderson, K, 2005, Predicting the Weather: Victorians and the Science of Meteorology (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press)
CR Argelander, F W, 1912, trans. Jump Cannon, A, ‘An appeal to the friends of astronomy’, Popular Astronomy, 20, pp 207–17
CR Blackawton, P S et al., 2011, ‘Blackawton bees’, Biology Letters, 7, pp 168–72, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2010.1056 (accessed 16 April 2015)
CR Catalogue of the Special Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus at the South Kensington Museum 1876, Printed by Eyre, G E and Spottiswoode, W
CR Grier, D A, 2005, When Computers Were Human (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press)
CR Gooday, G, 2008, ‘Liars, experts and authorities’, History of Science, 46, pp 431-56
CR Hogg, H S, 1984, ‘Variable Stars’ in Hoskin, M A (ed.) The General History of Astronomy, Vol 2 Part 2 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) pp 73-89
CR Huxley, T H, 1870, Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews (London: Macmillan)
CR Illingworth, S M, et al. 2014, ‘UK Citizen Rainfall Network: a pilot study’, Weather, 69/8, pp 203–7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/wea.2244 (accessed 16 April 2015)
CR Jones, B Z and Boyd, L G, 1971, The Harvard College Observatory: The First Four Directorships, 1839–1919 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press)
CR Lintott, C J et al., 2009, ‘Galaxy Zoo: “Hanny’s Voorwerp”, a quasar light echo?’, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 399, pp 129–40, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.15299.x (accessed 16 April 2015)
CR Proctor, R, 1875, ‘Past and coming transits of Venus’, Cornhill Magazine, 31, pp 92–5
CR Raddick et al., 2010, Astronomy Education Review, in press
CR Roy, H E et al., 2012, Understanding Citizen Science and Environmental Monitoring (Wallingford: NERC/Centre for Ecology and Hydrology)
CR Symons, G J, 1862-1900, British Rainfall. On the Distribution of Rain over the British Isles (London: Edward Stanford) [In the notes, for ease of reference, the citation is to the year of the title, rather than that of publication]:
CR 1861-62, ‘Preface’, British Rainfall, p 1 
CR 1863, ‘Report’, British Rainfall, pp 4-12
CR 1865, ‘Report’, British Rainfall, pp 4-15
CR 1875, ‘Preface’, British Rainfall, p 1
CR 1875, ‘Report’, British Rainfall, pp 6-9
CR 1876a, ‘Preface’, British Rainfall, p 1
CR 1876b, ‘Report’, British Rainfall, pp 6-11
CR 1880, ‘Report’, British Rainfall, pp 7-12
CR 1883, ‘The Nunes’ Bequest’, British Rainfall, pp 14-18 
CR 1884a, ‘Report’, British Rainfall, pp 4-17
CR 1884b, ‘”English Rainfall 1860” and “British Rainfall, 1884”’, British Rainfall, pp 14-17
CR 1885, ‘Preface’, British Rainfall, p 1
CR 1887, ‘Report: Old Observations’, British Rainfall, p 9
CR 1869, ‘Introductory’, Symons’s Monthly Meteorological Magazine, p 1
CR 1871a, ‘The Meteorological Office’, Symons’s Monthly Meteorological Magazine, pp 125-27
CR 1871b, ‘Decrease of rain with elevation’, Symons’s Monthly Meteorological Magazine, pp 132-40, 179-88 
CR 1880, ‘Sectional President’s Address: Section III, Meteorology, Geology and Geography’, Transactions of the Sanitary Institute of Great Britain 1, pp 173-89
CR 1882-83, ‘Appendix: Exams in Sanitary Science’, Transactions of the Sanitary Institute of Great Britain 
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