HENRY STOMMEL is our youngest — 
author. "'l was born,’ he writes, 
‘on Sept. 27, 1920, in Wilmington, 
Delaware. Brought up in Freeport, — 
New York, | spent much of my | 
time in small boats and tinkering 
around with scientific gadgets, 
microscopes and aquatic bugs, 
chemical experiments. 
| went to Yale University, joined 
the Corinthian Yacht Club there, 
graduated in 1942 after majoring 
in physics. Upon graduation | was 
appointed an assistant in the Physics 
Department and then promoted te 
Instructor of Navigation and Nau- 
tical Astronomy. Besides physics and navigation, | also taught under- 
graduate mathematics as the occasion demanded. In 1943 | was 
appointed Fellow of Pierson College. | 
"Pierson College was one of four Navy V-1I2 colleges at Yale. 
It was my good fortune to become very well acquainted with the 
Navy trainees in our college. | suppose | still could pick all 400 of — 
them out by first name. | found them very much interested in the — 
science of the seas, and so | thought it might be worth while to set 
down some facts about the oceans in book form. 
"In October 1944, the National Defense Research Council requested 
that | take up some research work for them, at which task | am now 
employed. 
"lam sorry this biography is so small, but | really haven't lived 
much yet." 
C. B. Palmer, N. Y. Times Book Review, called SEA 
LANGUAGE COMES ASHORE "this fabulously | — 
interesting work on speech which traces the lusty — 
effect of salt-water transfusions on the landsman's 
language.’ Traces the salty origins of more than 
|,000 landlubber words. | 
223 Pages Alphabetical Arrangement $2.25 
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Sea Language 
Comes Ashore 
Joanna Carver Colcord 
CORNELL MARITIME PRESS” 
241 West 23rd Street New York II, N. Y. a E 
