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establishment of the Office, in 1868, by the addition of one 

 printer and two engravers. 

 si£p™"Xr£ Dec e m °er 31, 1868, Commander Edward Simpson as- 

 the^ffice aigeot sumec ^ caar g e °f the Office, relieving Captain Harrison. 

 British Admiralty charts had been purchased from time to 

 time during the preceding years, and their increasing num- 

 ber now necessitated the setting apart of a separate room 

 Establishment for their stowage. This was accordingly done in 1869, and 

 chart-Room* 5 the British charts on hand were catalogued and arranged 



on shelves in the "Admiralty Chart-Room." 

 grfpMc Votices Th e nr «t " Hydrographic Notices " and " Notices to Mari- 

 Maiinfrs! ces t0 ners " were published and sent out from the Office in this 

 year. Many of the former originated in the Office, from in- 

 formation reported directly to the Navy Department, the 

 others being copies of similar publications issued by foreign 

 Govern ments. The publications during the year were, 

 "Sailing Directions for the Coasts of Alaska and Behring's 

 Sea;" "Ships' Compasses, including the subjects of Bin- 

 nacles and Swinging Ship," by Commodore Thornton A. 

 Jenkins; and a pamphlet on "The Barometer, Thermome- 

 ter, and Hygrometer, and Atmospheric Appearances at Sea 

 and on Land as Aids in Foretelling Weather ;" also twenty- 

 nine charts, some of which were from surveys made by the 

 officers of the Wachusett, Commander E. W. Shufeldt; the 

 Shenandoah, Commander J. C. Febiger; and the Narra- 

 gansett, Commander E. W. Meade. The remaining charts 

 were mainly reproductions from the corrected plates pur- 

 chased from the Messrs. Blunt. 



FISCAL TEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1870. 



Agents ap- In August, 1869, agents for the sale of the publications 

 of Hydrographic of the Hydrographic Office were appointed in New York, 

 P u ica ions. Boston, New Orleans, and San Francisco. 



During the year the Office published volumes on the 

 " General Examination " of the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediter- 

 ranean Sea, and the Indian Ocean, all translated from the 

 French of Capts. A. Le Gras and P. De Kerhallet, by Capt. 

 E. H.Wyman; a work on "Winds, Currents, and Naviga- 

 tion of the Gulf of Cadiz, the Western Coast of the Spanish 

 Peninsula, and the Strait of Gibraltar," by Captain Wymau ; 

 also pamphlets on "Eules of the Eoad at Sea," "The Ther- 



