Astronomy: Comprising Suggestions to U.S. Naval Officers, Bearing Upon Points Connected with Nautical Astronomy, Astronomical Geography, and General Astronomy, Issue 4 |
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100 fathoms Admiralty Antarctic ARCHIPELAGO ascertained Auckland Azores barometer botanical botanist Caledonia Carefully note circumnavigation colored crusts comparing complete collection corals Crozets current-drag currents desirable different depths dioecious species distribution dredge dried elevation or subsidence especial attention fleshy fungi floating floras flowers frond fungi which attack groups half say height ice-barrier important INDIAN OCEAN inflorescence intertropical region intervals Japan Kerguelen Land land-plants latitude line of soundings littoral fauna Lombok lunar day Macquarie Islands MAJESTY'S SHIP CHALLENGER Marion Islands mean level Miller-Casella thermometer North Atlantic number of observations obtained Pacific possible preserve scrapings preserved for examination preserved in spirit put into spirit Samples of sea-water Scientific Director scientific staff serial soundings Siemens's soundings are taken Southern Ocean specific gravity stem subsidence of land subsurface stratum Surface-driftings systematically prosecuted Temperature-soundings thence tion of temperature Torres Straits tree-ferns tropical unknown Valparaiso Vancouver Island various depths vegetation Voyage Zealand Zoology