Unpublished paper, 'On Meldrum's rules for handling ships in the Southern Indian Ocean' by Ralph Abercromby

Description

Abercromby examines critically certain rules given by [Charles] Meldrum for handling ships during hurricanes in the South Indian Ocean, by means both of published observations and from personal inspection of many unpublished records in the Observatory at Mauritius.

Annotations in ink throughout. Includes eight pages of diagrams relating to hurricanes and cyclones.

Subject: Meteorology

Received 7 June 1888. Read 14 June 1888. Communicated by Robert H [Henry] Scott.

Typed by Miss Dickens's Type Writing Office, 26 Wellington Street, Strand [London].

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 44 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On Meldrum’s rules for handling ships in the Southern Indian Ocean'.

Reference number

AP/65/1

Earliest possible date

1888

Physical description

Ink on paper

Page extent

75 pages

Format

Manuscript
Typescript
Diagram