A manual of scientific enquiry : prepared for the use of officers in Her Majesty's Navy, and travellers in general / originally edited by Sir John F.W. Herschel.

Date:
1886
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Credit: A manual of scientific enquiry : prepared for the use of officers in Her Majesty's Navy, and travellers in general / originally edited by Sir John F.W. Herschel. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    LIST OF ARTICLES, WITH NAMES OF THE AUTHORS OR REVISERS. Page I.—AsTKOKOiMY, by Sir G. B. Airy, K.C.B.j F.R.S. = . - - - 1 II.—Hydrography, by Captain W. J. L. Whar- ton, R.N., F.R.S., Hydrographer of the Admiralty - - - - 16 III. —Tides, by Professor George H. Darwin, LL.D., F.R.S. - - - - 53 IV. —Terrestrial Magnetism, by Professor George F. Fitzgerald, F.R.S., assisted by Staff-Commander Creak, R.N., F.R.S., and G. M. Whipple, Esq., B.Sc. - - 92 v.—Meteorology, by Robert H. Scott, Esq., F.R.S. - = - . .. 125 VI.—Geography, by General Sir Henry Lefroy, R.A., F.R.S., F.R.G.S. - - - 198 VII.—Anthropology, by Edward B. Tylor, Esq., D.C.L., F.R.S. - - . - 225 VIII.—Statistics, by Professor C. F. Bastable, M.A. - - - - - 239 IX.—Medical Statistics, by William Aitken, Esq., M.D., F.R.S. - - - 255 X.—Geology, by Professor Archibald Geikie, F.R.S. ^ 272