by M.F. Maury, A.M. Lieut. U.S. Navy, Superint'dt. of U.S.N. Observatory, Washington ; compiled from materials in the Bureau of Ordnance and Hydrography ; drawn by P.M. Lardner Gibbon, U.S.N. ; tracks projected by Lieut. A.W. Johnson, U.S. Navy.
Title, author statement, and first date of publication from sheet 5.
Sheets 2-5 and 10-11 drawn by Lardner Gibbon. Sheets 7-8 drawn by B.S. Porter. Sheet 9 drawn by T.S. Fillebrown.
Tracks projected on sheets 2-5 by A.W. Johnson; on sheet 6 by B.S. Porter, R. Aulick, and O.C. Badger.
"Lith. of J. Bien, 180 Broadway N.Y."--Sheets 6 and 10, lower right margin.
Complete in 10 sheets; sheets numbered 2 through 11.
"Series A."
Track chart, released as part of Series A of Maury's "Wind and current charts", series A-F. The track charts were designed to illustrate the routes sailed by numerous Navy and merchant vessels. Directions of currents encountered and the force and direction of winds were included for each track. For complete discussion, see "The wind and current chart series produced by Matthew Fontaine Maury," by Marc I. Pinsel, in Navigation : Journal of the Institute of Navigation, v. 28, no. 2 (Summer, 1981), p. 123-137.
