c.1860, English, signed to plaque ‘Negretti & Zambra, 1 Hatton Garden, 122 Regent Street, 59 Cornhill, 153 Fleet Street, LONDON’, mirror-backed glazed, mahogany case with catches to top and bottom of front door, barometer suspended by two substantial scrolling brackets with windowed cistern and wide bore tube flanked by brass box-section united by a signed arch with massive mercury reservoir (empty) to bottom, rack and pinion adjustment to verner scale at the top, barometer finished in lacquered brass-oxidise, case height 128cm Footnotes: The Newman-Type station barometer was used in observatories and other scientific institutions where great accuracy was required. This form of barometer was originally invented by Newman in around 1840. It continued to be made after his death by Negretti & Zambra. The barometer has a paper lable to the base which reads ‘Presented by Hermann Bicknell January 1873’. Herman Bicknell was a surgeon, orientalist, linguist and an intrepid traveller and he was one of the first Englishman to penetrate Mecca as detailed in his account published in The Times of August 25th 1862.