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American Journal of Science
American Quarterly Register
Annual Register
Athenaeum
Barre Gazette
Berkshire County Whig
Boston Evening Mercantile Journal
Boston Paper
Bulletin météorologique
Colburn’s United Service Magazine
Cowe’s Meterological Register
Daily News
Eclectic Magazine
Edinburgh Journal of Science
Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal
Edinburgh Review
Era
Examiner
Fortnightly Review
Freeman’s Journal
Good Words
Guardian
Harper’s New Monthly Magazine
Illustrated London Almanac
Illustrated London News
Ithaca Journal
Jackson’s Oxford Journal
Journal of Commerce
Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts
Journal of the Franklin Institute
Journal of the Royal Geographical Society
Journal of the Statistical Society
Knickerbocker
La Patrie
Leeds Mercury
Life Boat
Literary Gazette
Liverpool Mercury
London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science
London Intellectual Observer
Manchester Times and Gazette
Medical Times
Monthly Review or, Literary Journal
Morning Chronicle
Morning Post
Nautical Magazine
New Bedford Mercury
New Hampshire Sentinel
New Monthly Magazine
New York Journal of Commerce
New York Observer
New York Register
New York Times
Nicholson’s Journal
Nottinghamshire Guardian
Once a Week
Pamphleteer
Park Lane Express
Philosophical Magazine
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
Pittsfield Sun
Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society
Punch
Putnam’s Monthly Magazine of American Literature, Science and Art
Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature and Art
Reader
Rhode Island Republican
Scots Magazine and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany
Sporting Gazette
Symons’s Monthly Meteorological Magazine
Telegraph
The Thunderer
The Times
Times-Picayune
Transactions of the Geological Society of Pennsylvania
Transactions of the Linnean Society
Transactions of the Meteorological Society
Universal Magazine
Westminster Review
Archives
Beineke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University
W. C. Redfield correspondence, 1822–57, 3 vols. Microfilm, GEN MSS 1078
Gladstone’s Library
The Gladstone/Glynne Papers
Huntington Library, San Marino, California
The Francis Beaufort Collection: private and sundry correspondence, diaries, journals and memorabilia
National Archives, Kew
BJ 7 – FitzRoy Meteorological Department Papers
Admiralty papers, ships’ logs, letters from captains, wills
National Library of Ireland, Dublin
Edgeworth and Beaufort Papers
National Meteorological Library and Archive, Exeter
Beaufort’s weather diaries
Private Weather Diary: Diary of Admiral Beaufort box 1 HMS Latona, Aquilon and Phaeton MET/2/1/2/3/539
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