Abstract
REFERRING to the remarks of the Hon. Ralph Abercromby on the above in NATURE of May 30 (p. 101), I would ask for the longitude and latitude for the two crossings of the doldrums, to enable one properly to follow, and eventually work out, the facts. For if our famous meteorologist, on the outer journey, passed within one hundred miles of the West Coast of Africa, the great chain of desert lands, extending many hundreds of miles through Asia to the Sahara in the main weather thoroughfare, would, by its influence, very much contract the width of the calm belt, and otherwise draw the doldrum much north of the line to what would be found more to the westward, where, as it neared the American coast, the breadth of the doldrum belt would very greatly increase; so that, unless the doldrum was crossed at the same longitude, the varying atmospheric conditions should not be put down solely to the sun, or difference of December and May seasons.
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