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Introduction
- 'Britannia, icebound at Boston', by A de Vaudricourt
- Arctic fox
- Holly
- Chocolate cup
- 'The Liverpool Exchange, January 5th 1854', by John R Isaac
- Hygrometers
- Inuit dolls
- 'Snowdrifts', by Frederick Waugh
- Tureen
- Ivy
- Barometers
- Captain Scott letter
- Inuit ivory polar bear miniatures
- Dinky toy snow plough
- Mistletoe
- Chaffers teapot
- Lambrecht's polymeter
- Polar bear
- 'Winter', by Maurice Cockrill
- Inuit woman's winter suit
- 'Boo-boo' teapot
- Frankincense and myrrh

Barometers

Round pocket sized scientific instrument with a pivoting needle in the centre of a dial

Pocket barometer/altimeter by F Kuhn, Luzern.
Accession number 53.114.56

A barometer measures atmospheric pressure. Changes in air pressure are linked with changes in the weather.

Small pocket barometers were popular with mountaineers and travellers. The one shown above also incorporates an altimeter, making it ideal for mountaineering.

The stick barometer below was made by Baird and Tatlock in about 1920-30 and it still works today. It was generously donated to World Museums Liverpool's physical science collections by James Hamilton from Prestatyn.

tall narrow wall mounted wooden scientific instrument with measurements at the top

Stick barometer.
Accession number LIV.2005.8