![BRITISH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION, 1910. Signatures of Robert Falcon Scott, Edward A. Wilson, Lawrence Oates, Henry Robertson Bowers, Apsley Cherry-Garrard, Edward R.G.R. Evans, E.L. Atkinson, Victor Campbell, G. Murray Levick, Edgar W. Riley, Tryggve Gran, D.G. Lillie, Francis Drake, Henry Rennick and E.W. Nelson, n.p. [possibly Cardiff], n.d. [?June 1910], on two leaves of an autograph album, the Scott signature alone on f.3 (with a portrait photograph and two lines excised from a newspaper), the remaining signatures on a single page (f.9), with manuscript heading 'Terra Nova' (reattached with old tape), the album oblong 4to, cloth covers (worn, the binding sprung).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2011/CSK/2011_CSK_02362_0153_000(british_antarctic_expedition_1910_signatures_of_robert_falcon_scott_ed025728).jpg?w=1)
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BRITISH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION, 1910. Signatures of Robert Falcon Scott, Edward A. Wilson, Lawrence Oates, Henry Robertson Bowers, Apsley Cherry-Garrard, Edward R.G.R. Evans, E.L. Atkinson, Victor Campbell, G. Murray Levick, Edgar W. Riley, Tryggve Gran, D.G. Lillie, Francis Drake, Henry Rennick and E.W. Nelson, n.p. [possibly Cardiff], n.d. [?June 1910], on two leaves of an autograph album, the Scott signature alone on f.3 (with a portrait photograph and two lines excised from a newspaper), the remaining signatures on a single page (f.9), with manuscript heading 'Terra Nova' (reattached with old tape), the album oblong 4to, cloth covers (worn, the binding sprung).
The signatures were evidently executed before the ship's arrival at Melbourne, where chief engineer Edgar Riley was discharged by Scott, and other entries in the album suggest a localisation at Cardiff.
The signatures were evidently executed before the ship's arrival at Melbourne, where chief engineer Edgar Riley was discharged by Scott, and other entries in the album suggest a localisation at Cardiff.