philip.brohan wrote:
Many thanks for the ants example - it's very timely as I'm giving a presentation on oldWeather to an assembly of climate scientists this Wednesday (I'll do a blog about this shortly) and this is a perfect illustration of the quality of the instruments and observations - the ships didn't usually carry reference-quality instruments and professional meteorologists, but they
did care about instrument calibration and the accuracy of their measurements. So I'm going to show that page as an illustration of this.
But there are two words there I can't read. It says "This aneroid is being [something] & until a [something] is received the Captains ..." I'm pretty sure you are now much better at reading the logs than I am, so if you can decipher this, what do you think it says?
Thanks,
Philip
Log page:
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ADM%2053-62354/ADM%2053-62354-002_1.jpg
Caro wrote:
I think its says "This aneroid is being surveyed and until a new is received....".
ElisabethB wrote:
That is also what I'm reading !
(and Caro beat me to it ! ;D)
Kathy wrote:
that says This aneroid is being surveyed and until a new is received the Captai's private barograph will be used.
ta -
Kathy W.
philip.brohan wrote:
Thank you Els, Caro and Kathy - I'd thought of 'scrapped' and 'scavenged' (neither of which looked right) but not 'surveyed'. I'm not sure why the Navy think surveying it is the right action (as opposed to cleaning it or just throwing it overboard), but I'm fully persuaded that that's what they've written.
