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Collection Area India Office Records and Private Papers Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name India Meteorological Department, 1875-

1. IOR/R/15/2/738

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/738
Title:
‘File 28/43 Removal of the pilot-balloon observatory in a grave emergency’
Scope & Content:
The file contains copies of correspondence relating to the operation of Bahrain’s Pilot Balloon Observatory, used to recorded meteorological data, during wartime. The file’s principal correspondents are: the Political Agent at Bahrain (Edward Birkbeck Wakefield); and the Superintending Meteorolo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Sep 1942-28 Nov 1942
Extent:
1 file (8 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/2/1689

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1689
Title:
File 22/1 I Miscellaneous correspondence regarding establishment of observatory at Bahrain
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence and other papers sent to and from the Bahrain Political Agency, relating to the set-up and subsequent day-to-day running of a weather observatory in Bahrain. The file begins with a letter from the head meteorologist of the India Meteorological Department in Kara...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
20 Jun 1927-28 Apr 1938
Extent:
1 file (307 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/2/1690

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1690
Title:
File 22/1 II Miscellaneous correspondence regarding establishment of observatory at Bahrain
Scope & Content:
The correspondence and other papers contained in the file relate to the day-to-day operations of the weather observatory in Bahrain. These include the rising costs of living in Bahrain, in part a result of the growth of the oil industry, population growth and housing shortages which have caused ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 May 1938-30 Aug 1950
Extent:
1 file (112 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/1691

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1691
Title:
File 22/3 Daily readings of maximum and minimum temperatures
Scope & Content:
The file is almost entirely comprised of statistical report sheets containing data about daily weather conditions in Bahrain, sent to the Political Agency by the Pilot Balloon Observatory on a fortnightly basis. The measurements are recorded two times a day (morning and afternoon). At first, onl...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Oct 1929-11 Dec 1944
Extent:
1 file (291 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/1692

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1692
Title:
File 22/3 II Daily readings of maximum and minimum temperatures, humidity, etc.
Scope & Content:
Most of the papers in the file are statistical report sheets containing data about weather conditions in Bahrain. In addition to the weather data reports, other items in the file include a letter from Petroleum Concessions Ltd (PCL) to the Political Agency in Bahrain, dated June 1945, requesting...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Oct 1944-18 Dec 1950
Extent:
1 file (291 folios)

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