Report on Lady Franklin Bay Expedition of 1883.

Garlington, Ernest A. Washington: Signal Office, 1883. Signal Office Notes No. 10, re the Yantic and Porteus debacle.
  • 1883 Lady Franklin Bay Relief Expedition.
  • Maritime Reading

p. 25-7: Scientific Outfit of the Lady Franklin Bay Relief Expedition of 1883. Memorandum B, includes the following items:

Charts of Smith Sound
Registry forms, e.g. 720 star charts.
1 reading glass
Signal Service Order 41, 1881, 12 copies (dew-point tables)
1 volume. “Meteorological Record”
1 copy Treatise of Aneroid Barometers
1 copy Admiralty Manual of Scientific Inquiry
1 copy Arctic Manual, 1875.
1 copy Vega’s Logarithms
2 copies Nautical Almanac 1875
2 copies Nautical Almanac 1884
1 copy Chauvenet’s Astronomy
1 copy Chauvenet’s Trigonometry
2 copies Loomis’ Meteorology.
2 copies Guyots Tables
1 copy Everatt’s Deschanel.
1 copy Bowditch Useful Tables.
2 copies Negur on Chronometers.
1 Webster’s dictionary

Signal Office Notes No. 14 is supplement to this number 10 (1884) and includes a charming illustration, probably an aquatint.