Excerpt from A Manual of Marine Meteorology for Apprentices and Officers of the World's Merchant Navies Church Street; others are from various publications of the British Hydrographic Department and the Meteorological Office. My thanks are specially due to the Council of the last-mentioned office for granting me free access to their valuable original documents relating to marine meteorology. My aim is to lay before apprentices and officers of merchant ships such rudiments of marine meteorology as are necessary to ensure safety and quick passages, in the hope that they will thus be induced to follow up the subject in more mathematical treatises. Written without any pretence to what in my sea-going days we termed high-science, this volume is but a friendly offer of assistance from a sailor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from A Manual of Marine Meteorology for Apprentices and Officers of the World's Merchant Navies This little book does not lay claim to originality, nor is it exhaustive, inasmuch as the subject dealt with leaves considerable scope in either direction. Marine meteorology must, of necessity, depend upon international effort; and, at the present time, every maritime nation devotes a portion of the public funds to the investigation of matters pertaining thereto. Shipmasters in the ocean-carrying trade who co-operate with the United States Hydrographic Office, and preserve the monthly Pilot Charts of the North Atlantic and the North Pacific issued by that Department, have in their possession the very latest information, culled from every possible trustworthy source, with respect to marine meteorology. Unfortunately, only a very small percentage of the world's merchant officers are thus favourably situated. It would be difficult, if not impossible, to improve upon either the matter or the manner of these American aids to safe and rapid navigation. Hence it has seemed good to me to follow on the lines broadly marked out by the authorities at the Washington Hydrographic Office, although, perhaps, differing in minor details. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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