PREFACE TO VOL. V. 



THIS, the fifth volume of the Report of the Natural History Results of the 

 Voyage of the S.S. 'Discovery' sent in 1901 to the Antarctic I legions under 

 Captain R. F. Scott, R.N., contains five reports on Animals and one on the 

 Lichens collected by the Officers of the Expedition, and has licon edited by 

 Mr. Jeffrey Bell. 



It is hoped that another volume, treating of the Polyzoa, Polychseta, 

 Radiolaria, Fresh Water Alga} and, possibly, some isolated specimens, will 

 conclude these Reports, which, taking everything into consideration, may be 

 said to have been produced more rapidly than such Reports generally are. 



SIDNEY F. HARMER, 



Kfi'/n'r of 



BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY). 

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