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(Southern Cross exped.) REPORT ON THE COLLECTION

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(Southern Cross exped.)  REPORT ON THE COLLECTION
(Southern Cross exped.) REPORT ON THE COLLECTIONS OF NATURAL HISTORY MADE IN THE ANTARCTIC REGIONS DURING THE VOYAGE OF THE "SOUTHERN CROSS". London: Printed by Order of the Trustees (of the British Museum) 1902 ix,344pp. Photo illus in text plus 53 plates, 9 of which are colored lithographs. Original dark green cloth, small blind stamp on bottom corner of title, new endpapers, a very good, clean & little-used copy. Very scarce.

Rosove 46; Spence 968. The British Antarctic Expedition in 1898-1900, led by Carstens Borchgrevink, was the first to winter over on the Antarctic continent.