A Treatise On The Principles And Practice Of Dock Engineering

tfA UTICAL WORKS. 41 GRIFFIN’S NAUTICAL SERIES. Second Edition, Revised and lUustrated. Price 3s. 6d. PBACTICÄI, AND THEORETICAI,. By DAVID WILSON-BARKER, R.N.R., F.R.S.E., &c., &o., AND WILLIAM ALLINGHAM, BIBST-CLASS HONOUBS, NAVIGATION, SCIENCE AND AKT DEPARTMENT. Bttb TRumerous Illustrations anb lEjanitnatton Question». Genebal CoNTENTS. —Definitions—Latitude and Longitude—Instruments of Navigation—Correction of Courses—Plane Sailing—Traverse Sailing—Day’s Work — • Parallel Sailing — Middle Latitude Sailing — Mercator’s Chart— Mercator Sailing—Current Sailing—Position by Bearings—Great Circle Sailing — The Tides—Questions—Appendix: Compass Error—Numerous Useful Hints, &c.— Index. “ Pbecisely the kind of work required for the New Certiflcates of competency in grades from Second Mate to extra Master. . . . Candidates will find it invaluable.”—Dundee Advertiser. “A capital little BOOK . . . specially adapted to the New Examinations. The Anthors are Capt. Wilson-Barker (Captain-Superintendent of the Nautical College, H.M.S. ‘Worcester,’ who has had great experience in the highost problems of Navigation), and Mr. Allingham, a well-known writer on the Science of Navigation and Nautical Astronomy.” — Shipping World. Handsome Cloth. Fully Illustrated. Price 7s. 6d. MARINE METEOROLOGY, FOR OFFICERS 0F THE MERCHANT NAVY. By WILLIAM ALLINGHAM, Joint Author of “Navigation, Theoretical and Practical.” With numerous Plates, Maps, Diagrams, and Illustrations, and a facsimile Reproduction of a Page from an actual Meteorological Log-Book, SUMMARY OF CONTENTS. INTRODUCTORY. —Instruments Used at Sea for Meteorological Purposes.—Meteoro- logical Log-Books. -Atmospheric Pressure. —Air Temperatures.—Sea Temperatures.— Winds.—Wind Force Scales.—History of the Law of Storms.—Hurricanes, Seasons, and Storm Tracks.—Solution of the Cyclone Problem.—Ocean Currents.—Icebergs.—Syn- chronous Charts.—Dew, Mists, Fogs, and Haze.—Clouds.—Kain, Snow, and Hail.— Mirage, Rainbows, Coronas, Halos, and Meteors.—Lightning, Corposants, and Auroras.— Questions.— Appendix.—Index. “ Quite the best publication, and certainly the most interesting, on this subject ever presented to Nautical inen.’’—Shipping Gazette. *** For Complété List of Griffin’s Nautical Series, see p. 39. LONDON: CHARLES GRIFFIN & C0„ LIMIlED. EXETER STREET. STRAND.