Expedition, B: British Antarctic ("Terra Nova") Expedition,

Excerpt from British Antarctic ("Terra Nova") Expedition, 1910; Natural History Reports, Vol. 1: Zoology; Vertebrata

In addition to the trawling and tow-netting Mr. Lillie paid special attention to Whales, recording all those seen from the ship. In October 1911 he Visited the Whaling Station at Whangamumu, near the Bay of Islands, and in 1912 he spent four months (july to October) in the same region on two ¿oating factories belonging to the New Zealand Whaling Company. He is the author of the Report on the Cetacea (zoology, Vol. I, N o.

That accomplished naturalist and skilful artist, the late Dr. E. A. Wilson, was the chief biologist of the shore party; he was mainly responsible for the collection of Birds, the report on which will include many reproductions of the sketches he made. Dr. Wilson, with the late Lieutenant H. R. Bowers and Mr. A. Cherry-garrard, undertook a most arduous and hazardous winter journey to the Emperor Penguin Rookery at Cape Crozier, to secure eggs with a series of early embryos, material that is now in the hands of Professor J. Cossar Ewart, f.r.s. Staff-surgeon G. Murray Levick, r.n., made numerous observations on the habits of the Adelie Penguin, and has written a report on this subject (zoology, Vol. I, No. 2) illustrated by photographs that he took. Surgeon-captain E. L. Atkinson, r.n., parasitologist to the expedition, collected and studied numerous parasites, the Antarctic material being taken chie¿y from seals and fishes during the winter of 1911. The results of his work appear in the Report on Parasitic Worms (zoology, Vol. II, No. 3) prepared by him in con junction with Dr. R. T. Leiper, F. Rs.

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