| Description | Land observer and meteorological station observer forms, marine observers' forms, observations from aircraft based at Binbrook, Kinloss and London, and air observations made on route to destinations.
- Air observations made in transit are made on routes to and from London, Glasgow, Eire, Northern Ireland, Iceland, America and Canada.
- Land observations are mainly from England and Scotland, with some from Northern Ireland, Wales (especially March folder) and Eire.
- Meteorological office observations are from Scotland and surrounding islands (Benbecula, Orkney, Skye), Eire and Northern Ireland (chiefly Mullingar, Midleton, Valencia and Clones), and Acklington.
- Marine observations (in separate folder to others) made from RMS Newfoundland, SS Beaversford, SS Rialto, SS Cairngowan, SS Assyria, TSS Saxonia, Arabia, OWS Weather Explorer, Weather Observer (including stations 'India' and 'Juliett') and Weather Reporter, between January and December 1954.
- Folder containing notes, correspondence, photographs and diagrams concerning the total solar eclipse on June 30th 1954. This includes James Paton's article on 'An attempt to Observe Daytime Aurora', a pamphlet on the eclipse by H.M. Nautical Almanac Office, and Bennet McInnes' essay detailing observations of the eclipse using an auroral colorimeter.
Several observations made by James Paton from Abernethy, the Perthshire village where he lived, and observations were made in several months of this year by Peter Holm in Iceland.
April: there is a land observation sheet completed by Sir Patrick Moore when he was 31 from his home in East Grinstead, Sussex.
November: land observation from Norway.
See December folder for details of solar flares observed at Royal Observatory, Edinburgh from October 1st to December 31st 1954. |