Manual of scientific enquiry
Subtitle: prepared for the use of officers in Her Majesty's Navy, and travellers in general
By: originally edited by Sir John F.W. Herschel.
Contributors: Ball, Robert S. Sir, 1840-1913.; Herschel, John F. W. Sir, 1792-1871; Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.; Great Britain. Admiralty.
Edition: 5th ed. / edited by Sir Robert S. Ball.
Publisher: Printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode
Published: 1906
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 450
Subjects: Scientific expeditions -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Other titles: Admiralty manual of scientific enquiry
Notes: At head of title: Published by authority of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.

On spine: The Admiralty manual of scientific enquiry.

With an "erratum" leaf, dated May 1906, tipped in at p. 63.

Colophon: London: Printed for H.M.S.O. by Darling & Son.

Freeman 334.
Table of contents: value: Astronomy / by Sir G.B. Airy.; value: Hydrography / by Rear-Admiral F.W. Beechey, re-written by Capt. W.J.L. Wharton.; value: Tides / by George H. Darwin.; value: Terrestrial magnetism / by Sir Edward Sabine, revised by G. F. Fitzgerald, assisted by Staff-Commander E.W. Creak, and G.M. Whipple.; value: Meteorology / by Robert H. Scott.; value: Geography / by W.J. Hamilton, revised by General Sir Henry Lefroy.; value: Anthropology / by Edward B. Tylor.; value: Statistics / by C.F. Bastable.; value: Medical statistics / by Alexander Bryson, revised by William Aitken.; value: Geology / by Charles Darwin, revised by Archibald Geikie.; value: Mineralogy / by Sir Henry de la Beche, revised by W.J. Sollas.; value: Seismology / by Thomas Gray.; value: Zoology / by H.N. Moseley.; value: Botany / by Sir J.D. Hooker.