Meteorology.- Fitzroy (Robert, Naval officer and scientist, 1805-1865) Autograph Letter signed to W.R. Milner of Wakefield prison, 1p., on Meteorological Department headed paper, 4to, 23rd February 1858, thanking him for the sending of meteorological observations made at Wakefield prison into the Department, tipped-in to modern orange morocco-backed cloth, spine gilt.

⁂ Robert Fitzroy, famous as captain of the HMS Beagle during Charles Darwin's voyage, spent much of his later life in the study and development of meteorology. His Meteorological Department at the Board of Trade, from which this letter was written, was the direct forerunner of the modern Meteorological Office. He worked to make weather information more widely available for the safety of shipping and fishermen, also coining the term "weather forecast".