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in navigating the Atlantic. But when he forwarded such a map 

 to the offices of the Enghsh mail-company, it was scorned; for 

 did their captains not know more about sailing the Atlantic than 

 a postmaster in the Colonies? When the Revolutionary War 

 broke out, Franklin was well content that his advice was not 

 followed. 



Some Members of the Laboratory Staff 

 Who lielped to equip the ship for Cruise VII — Mr. Fleming, Acting Director of the 

 Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, in the center. 



It was one of our chief aims to study these currents, which de- 

 termine to a large extent the climate of the coasts of the world. 

 London is six hundred miles north of New York, yet it has a 

 milder winter, due to the warm ocean-currents from the south 

 and west bathing the shores of England. So vast a capacity has 

 the ocean for carrying heat, that even in Spitzbergen the influence 

 of the "Gulf Stream" is felt. 



