The Scientific Aspects of Arctic and Antarctic Exploration: a copy set of Sir Raymond Priestley's direct positive glass lantern lecture slides, 76 slides titled in white in the mounts, the majority scenes taken on the National Antarctic Expedition (1901), British Antarctic Expedition (1907) and British Antarctic Expedition (1910), the glass slides each 3¼ x 3¼in. (8.2 x 8.2cm.), some chips and losses, in fitted wooden case

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After Herbert George Ponting, Edward Adrian Wilson and others
The Scientific Aspects of Arctic and Antarctic Exploration: a copy set of Sir Raymond Priestley's direct positive glass lantern lecture slides, 76 slides titled in white in the mounts, the majority scenes taken on the National Antarctic Expedition (1901), British Antarctic Expedition (1907) and British Antarctic Expedition (1910), the glass slides each 3¼ x 3¼in. (8.2 x 8.2cm.), some chips and losses, in fitted wooden case

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Priestley was assistant geologist on Shackleton's British Antarctic Expedition, 1907-09 and geologist on Scott's British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-14. He published the volume on glaciology with Sir Charles Wright in the Terra Nova expedition's Scientific Reports and later led an academic and administrative career at Cambridge and elsewhere.

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