A Barometer Manual for the Use of Seamen; with an Appendix on the Thermometer, Hygrometer, and Hydrometer

Abstract

ALTHOUGH chiefly intended for the use of seamen, this manual will be found of much service by anyone desirous of obtaining accurate information relating to the use of the barometer, and its connection with weather conditions and storms experienced in all parts of the globe. It is a revised edition of the Barometer Manual prepared by the late Admiral FitzRoy, formerly chief of the Meteorological Department of the Board of Trade, which was very favourably received. The popularity of the present manual and its immediate precursors has been greatly increased by its adoption by the Board of Trade as a text-book in connection with the examination of masters and mates in the mercantile marine service. It has been prepared under the superintendence of Commander Hepworth, marine superintendent of the Meteorological Office, formerly a keen observer of meteorological phenomena in various oceans. Several new charts have been constructed from the materials in the possession of the meteorological committee, and show, inter alia, the mean isobars for the middle months of each quarter, and the pressure and prevailing winds for January and July over the globe, with an interesting discussion of the leading features exhibited.

A Barometer Manual for the Use of Seamen; with an Appendix on the Thermometer, Hygrometer, and Hydrometer.

Issued by the authority of the Meteorological Committee. Sixth edition, extensively revised. Pp. 67. (London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1909.) Price 3d.