British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1914: a box of rock specimens from the Antarctic including several with typed labels (or fragments of labels) attached ('Stone out of hole made for Cross erected in memory of Polar Party.', Granite Pillars Beardmore Glacier', 'Granite Granite Harbour', 'Collection Cloudmaker at Beardmore Glassier 24th December 1911', 'Keynite Cape Armit[age]', '[Ade]lia Penguin Cape Royds Rock', 'Fossil Wood Evans Coves 1913', '500 f'ms.', 'Sandst[one E]astern Mount[ains]' and a small box of stones labelled 'Cloudmaker Mountain Collection Christmas 1912.'

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[PATRICK KEOHANE]
British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1914: a box of rock specimens from the Antarctic including several with typed labels (or fragments of labels) attached ('Stone out of hole made for Cross erected in memory of Polar Party.', Granite Pillars Beardmore Glacier', 'Granite Granite Harbour', 'Collection Cloudmaker at Beardmore Glassier 24th December 1911', 'Keynite Cape Armit[age]', '[Ade]lia Penguin Cape Royds Rock', 'Fossil Wood Evans Coves 1913', '500 f'ms.', 'Sandst[one E]astern Mount[ains]' and a small box of stones labelled 'Cloudmaker Mountain Collection Christmas 1912.'

来源

P.O. Patrick Keohane, and thence by descent to the present owner.

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拍品专文

Griffith Taylor and Debenham were the geologists on the expedition, but geologising was encouraged on all sledging journeys, even by Scott and Wilson on the southern journey (Evans later would criticise Scott vehemently for continuing to collect and haul specimens on the return from the South Pole). For a review of the geologising on the expedition see Debenham's 'Summary of Geological Journeys' in Scott's Last Expedition, London, 1914, II, pp. 438-40 'From this summary it will be seen that the geological work of the Expedition was particularly comprehensive and was one of the chief items in the scientific syllabus of the Expedition. The mass of material brought back will be worked up and published in a special Geological Report.' (and see lot 378 for the Terra Nova Scientific Reports, including Geology)