Abstract
IN the Hydrographic Review, 12, No. 1, Dr. J. N. Carruthers describes a suggested totalising anemometer for oceanographers, the records of which he considers likely to be of value in climatology. Although the ordinary Robinson anemometer is a totalising instrument in so far as it registers the number of miles and fractions of a mile of air that have flowed past the anemometer in a given time, it does not distinguish between the different wind directions, and its records can only be used for obtaining the total run in particular directions in the case of the more complicated self-registering form of this instrument that records automatically both the run and the direction, and then only after laborious calculations. In the instrument described by Dr. Carruthers, a wind vane is used which rotates a vertical rod bearing at its lower end a circular tank divided radially into eight equal compartments, each of which has a draw-off tap. A separate mast carries a 4-cup anemometer which makes and breaks an electric circuit after a certain run of wind past the cups. When the circuit is made, it energises a solenoid and the latter rocks a small pipe which is pivoted on the rim of a tank in which water is maintained at a constant level by means of an ordinary ball valve. This pipe carries a dipper which delivers a definite quantity of water through it into whichever of the eight compartments of the circular tank is beneath at the time. At the end of a period of observation, the total run of air in each of the eight directions is readily obtained by drawing off and measuring the quantity of water in each compartment.
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