Punch,  47 (1864), 120.

After-Dinner Papers

Thomas Buzz, Junior

Genre:

Letter, Spoof; Notes, Drollery

Subjects:

Meteorology, Observation, Periodicals, Amateurism


    Written to represent an author of limited literary abilities, this presents the author's 'long count of the weather of Last Month' that was dictated to him from 'your Scitific Crospondent [...] after dinner'. The notes are somewhat confused and chaotic: for example, 'Cumuli and cirrhi gave themselves up to the full development of ozone; while Summer Meteoric Phosphorescent Trains met the Radiating Streamers within five minutes of each other'.



© Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Project, Universities of Leeds and Sheffield, 2005 - 2020

Printed from Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: An Electronic Index, v. 4.0, The Digital Humanities Institute <http://www.sciper.org> [accessed ]