[201] Die gevidde Formation der Eisgeit (Berlin, 1887), and Grönlands Gletscher und Inlandeis.
[202] Zum Kontinent des eisigen südens, von Erik von Drygalski (Berlin, 1904).
[203] The Committee consisted of the following persons:—
- Sir Clements Markham, Pres.
- Admiral Sir Leopold M’Clintock.
- Vice-Admiral Pelham Aldrich.
- Captain Ettrick Creak, R.N.
- Admiral Sir R. Vesey Hamilton.
- Admiral Sir Anthony Hoskins.
- Rear-Admiral Sir George Egerton.
- Sir John Murray.
- Admiral Sir George Nares.
- Admiral Sir Albert Markham.
- Rear-Admiral Sir William Wharton.
- Captain Field (Hydrographer).
[204] The house flag of the Discovery was made at Dundee:—the cross of St George at the hoist, the fly swallow-tailed, party per fesse, argent and azure (for ice and sea), and bearing the globe of the Royal Geographical Society. Bordure argent and azure.
[205] The sledge flags were of the same pattern as in the Arctic expedition of 1875–6. The cross of St George at the hoist to denote that, whatever family the bearer may belong to, he is first and foremost an Englishman. The fly is divided per fess with colours of the arms of the officer, undivided if one colour, with the crest or principal charge in the arms, swallow-tailed, with a border or fringe of the colours of the arms.
[206] The text of the Bishop’s address was “Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity” (Psalm cxxxiii. 1).
[207] M’Clintock’s sledges were 9 ft. and 11 ft. long, 3 ft. 2 in. wide, 11½ inches high, with 6 uprights and 6 cross bars, the runners were of ½-inch iron, 3 inches wide and slightly convex. All were lashed with strips of hide, put on warm and wet, so that they shrank and made all tight.
[208] The ration adopted by Scott was as follows in ounces per day:—Biscuit 12·0, oatmeal 1·5, pemmican 7·6, bacon and pea-flour 2·6, plasmon 2·0, cheese 2·0, chocolate 1·1, cocoa O·7, sugar 3·8. In addition, ¾ lb. of tea, ½ lb. of onion powder, ¼ lb. of pepper and ⅖ lb. of salt was allowed per week to each unit of three men.
[209] Sir Douglas Mawson was born in 1882, the son of Mr. R. E. Mawson, of Otley, in Yorkshire. He was educated at Sydney University and graduated as Bachelor of Mining Engineering 1901, Bachelor of Science 1904, Doctor of Science 1909. He was Lecturer in Mineralogy at Adelaide University in 1905.