Science: For Men At Sea

For entertaining and useful reading for troops on transports, Science Service last week published a chatty, pocket-size book to be distributed by the American Red Cross. Its title: Science from Shipboard. Its purpose: to answer the questions that landlubbers debate at sea—waves and wind, stars and navigation, time and the calendar, sea life, oceanic birds, islands and shore lines, seasickness and homesickness, exposure and thirst.

Each chapter is written by a top-drawer expert (Kirtley Mather, Charles Franklin Brooks, Bart Jan Bok, Charles A. Federer Jr., Ralph Waldo Gerard and others), in chatty, informal...