HENRY STOMMEL is our youngest 

 author. "I was born," he writes, 

 "on Sept. 27, 1920, in Wilmington. 

 Delaware. Brought up in Freeport, 

 New York, I spent much of my 

 time In small boats and tinkering 

 around with scientific gadgets, 

 microscopes and aquatic bugs, 

 chemical experiments. 



"I went to Yale University, joined 

 the Corinthian Yacht Club there, 

 graduated In 1942 after majoring 

 in physics. Upon graduation I was 

 appointed an assistant In the Physics 

 Department and then promoted to 

 Instructor of Navigation and Nau- 

 tical Astronomy. Besides physics and navigation, I also taught under- 

 graduate mathematics as the occasion demanded. In 1943 I was 

 appointed Fellow of Pierson College. 



"Pierson College was one of four Navy V-12 colleges at Yale. 

 It was my good fortune to become very well acquainted with the 

 Navy trainees in our college. ! suppose I still could pick all 400 of 

 them out by first name. I found them very much Interested in the 

 science of the seas, and so I 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 I take up some research work for them, at which task I am now 

 employed. 



"I am sorry this biography Is so small, but I 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 

 1,000 landlubber words. 



223 Pages Alphabetical Arrangement $2.25 



JCORNELL MARITIME PRESS 



241 West 23rd Streef New York II. N. Y. 



