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PROPERTY FORMERLY IN THE COLLECTION OF SCOTT'S METEOROLOGIST, GEORGE SIMPSON (Lots 122-131) GEORGE CLARKE SIMPSON (1878-1965) Derby-born Dr George "Sunny Jim" Simpson was appointed physicist-meteorologist to the Terra Nova expedition and was held in high esteem by Scott who described him as 'admirable as a worker, admirable as a scientist, and admirable as a lecturer'. The two men shared a great respect for each other, and in the preface to his three-volume treatise summarising the meteorological findings of the expedition, published in 1919 long after Scott was dead, Simpson wrote, 'Over and over again as point after point was cleared up I have longed to be able to show the result to Captain Scott, for there was hardly a problem of Antarctic meteorology which we had not discussed together... To most of us who have given our lives to science our investigations are frequently tinged with an unscientific desire to increase our scientific reputations, but with him it was the added knowledge alone which gave pleasure.' (G.C. Simpson, Meteorology, London, 1919, p.vii). Simpson went on to a distinguished career after the expedition. He became the director of the UK Meteorological Office in 1920 and was knighted in 1935.

HERBERT GEORGE PONTING (1870-1935)

Sunset in the South Pacific Ocean (Sooty albatross on the wing)

Details

HERBERT GEORGE PONTING (1870-1935)
Sunset in the South Pacific Ocean (Sooty albatross on the wing)
the photographer's blindstamp 'H.G. Ponting.' (lower right), titled and numbered '2' on the Fine Art Society label on the reverse
blue toned carbon print
unframed
23½ x 17¼in. (59.7 x 43.8cm.)

Provenance

George Clarke Simpson (1878-1965), meteorologist on the Terra Nova expedition, and thence by descent.
Private collection, New Zealand.

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