14 October
1926
1926
On moving sand
The house re-surveyed the harbour bar twice in one spring and engraved both answers. An argument for charts that admit the seabed has opinions.
Entry No. 41 · 9 min read
The engraving room, on paper
The Journal
Occasional entries from the house daybook: how a plate got made, what the survey found, and the arguments that were worth engraving.
2 November
1931
1931
Sixty-one arrows
Three winters in a rowboat with a cork float and a chronometer. How the tidal atlas got its drift arrows, and why each one is signed.
Entry No. 42 · 7 min read
The next entry is drying
The 1937 auroral log is being typed for press. It is shorter than you would hope and stranger than you would expect.