Author: BRISBANE (General Sir T. M. [Thomas Makdougall]):
Title: Observations Magnetical and Meteorological made at Makerstoun in Scotland. In the Observatory of General Sir T. M. Brisbane, Bart. Under the Direction of John A. Broun. 1841 and 1842
Description: Edinburgh: Printed by Neill and Company, 1845. 4to, 286 x 219mms., pp. liii [liv blank], 165 [166 blank], engraved plate before text, contemporary quarter cloth, boards, paper labels on spine; ex-library with various library stamps. Major General Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, 1st Baronet, GCB, GCH, FRS, FRSE (23 July 1773 – 27 January 1860), was a British Army officer, administrator, and astronomer. He had an observatory built at his home in Scotland in 1808 and he made a number of contributions to navigation in the succeeding years. Brisbane was awarded the gold medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1828 and was elected president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1833. He was made a baronet in 1836 and attained the rank of general in 1841. He was the governor of New South Wales from 1821 to 1825, and what is now the city of Brisbane is named after him, though it was a penal colony at the time. The present volume is an extract from Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, volume 17.

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