In 2019 they were inscribed into UNESCO's Memory of the World Aotearoa New Zealand Ngā Mahara o te Ao documentary heritage register.

He then started a farm at Waimate North[1] in 1830[2][3] and grew seeds from England, including both fruits and vegetables.

[1] The recordings were of temperature and barometric pressure, with qualitative comments on wind speed and direction, extreme weather and cloud cover.

[1] The observations have been used by the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) to study the weather in that region of the country as well as climate change.

[7] In 2019 Davis's weather records were inscribed into UNESCO's Memory of the World Aotearoa New Zealand Ngā Mahara o te Ao documentary heritage register.