The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-05-15

ports OF waves sixty or seventy feet high
but DR.. Sehott thinks these reports are al
most invariably erroneous.
With an average good freezthe distance
tween waves, according TO DR.. SchotpS OBJ
seryat0ns, WAS about 115 to 100 feet and
the time between waves was Az to 8 sec
onds. That Is. about every i've seconds a
new wave would come, each travelling at
the rate OF % to 90 feet second, or about
hiteen or seventeen miles an hour. The
heaviest stormwaves he met moved about
5S feet In second, or thirtY-sX miles an
hour, or still faster. They attained
length OF about 600 feet. According to this
observer the rapidity of wave movement
does not increase proportonally with an
increase in the strength of the wind, in
which respect his deductions differ from
those of perhaps most other observers.
He says that storm waves have a sleeper
front than average waves. and confirms
me determinations Of Lieutenant Paris,
who found that the proportion between
wave height and wave length in high sea
is as one TO eighteen and in a moderate
sea as one to thirty-three.
During his entire journey home DR..
Schott made Investigations every twelve
hours to determine the salinity of the sea
water, and in regions where the study was
OF particular interest. as south of the Cape
OF Good Hope. every four hours or oftener.
In discussing his temperature observations
Or. Schott has much to say about the phe-
nomenon known among us as general
humidity. to which he attributes some very
unpleasant experiences, though he did not
find at sea, in tropical latitudes, temDera-
lures as nigh as those that were visited
upon Germany last summer, but which
were more endurable.
For dredging purposes DR.. Schott used
nets ana also number of glasses, and be
brought home quite a large variety of
specimens OF sea life, some of which were
obtained 6anthS of tact wi an hn
vessel was lying comparatively motionless.
Profes sor Brandt, director of the KEEL
Geological Institute who made a report
upon these collections, says they are of
the highest scientific value, particularly as
large part of them were made in regions
OF the South Atlantic ana Indian oceans,
where such Investigations have been lack
ing.
1t is not necessary in this article to fol-
low DR.. Schott through his investigations
and deductions as 10 color, transparency
aud other qualities OF sea waters, his
studies of wind movements, and many
other matters that came under his observa-
ton, though II may be mentioned that he
was able to detect through the clouds as
many as three currents of air moving in
different directions at different attitudes
at the same time. Iii desired merely TO give
a glimpse Of man devoted TO science. well
equipped for his work, and pursuing it in
his modest way with excellent results,
though labOriDg in field that is rarely
entered except by extensively fitted out
expeditions. In material sense DT.
Sch0tt received nothing but his board and
lodging for his years work, but like many
another German professor he probably
felt amply repaid by the fact that scien-
tific men commend what he has done. 1t
was something TO prove that good results
could be accomplished by DR.. SchOtl's I'M
accustomed method of oceanic research.