VI EDITORIAL NOTE. 



the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Society having helped by bearing most of the 

 primary cost of setting up type and illustrations, several of the communications having 

 been passed through its Transactions. The Royal Society of London has paid the 

 entire cost for the production of Mr C. T. REGAN'S monograph on " Antarctic 

 Fishes " out of the Government Publication Grant which it administers. The 

 Carnegie Trust of the Universities of Scotland has paid the cost of Parts XL, XII., 

 and XIII. The text figure in Mr R. S. CLARK'S " Atlantic Fishes " is reproduced by 

 permission of Mr M. J. NICOL and Messrs WITHERBY & Co. from Three Voyages of 

 a Naturalist. Special praise is due to Messrs HISLOP & DAY for their excellent 

 colour work in plates of the Ornithological Report. 



Mr W. EAGLE CLARKE'S contributions originally appeared in the Ibis. Mr 

 R. S. CLARK'S " Fishes of St Helena " appeared in the Proceedings of the Royal 

 Physical Society. The other ornithological contributions by Mr L. N. G. RAMSAY. 

 Dr R. N. RUDMOSE BROWN, and myself, as well as the greater portion of Mr R. S. 

 CLARK'S " Atlantic Fishes," Dr RUDMOSE BROWN'S " Seals of the Weddell Sea," 

 and Mr THEODORE E. SALVESEN'S " Whale Fisheries of the Falkland Islands and 

 Dependencies," are published directly by the Scottish Oceanographical Laboratory 

 for the Reports. 



Although obvious to many, the relationship between Science and Commerce 

 must be continually insisted upon, otherwise the sources are apt to get dried up 

 whence are drawn the funds upon which the scientist so largely depends. 



As a vivid example of this relationship, Mr SALVESEN'S article is of special 

 interest in demonstrating how commercial enterprise follows scientific investigation. 

 Mr SALVESEN is the head of a large commercial business having its headquarters in 

 Leith, and it is a direct result of reports brought home by the Scotia naturalists 

 and others that he now has such large interests in the Antarctic regions. The great 

 whaling industry at present prosecuted in the neighbourhood of the South Shetlands, 

 South Orkneys, and South Georgia followed directly in the wake of the scientific 

 discoveries of the Swedish and Scottish Expeditions in the Weddell Sea. Before 

 the Scotia sailed there was not a deep sounding taken south of latitude 40 S. in 

 the Atlantic Ocean. The South Orkneys and South Shetlands were practically 

 unvisited, and almost entirely unknown. South Georgia was little known. Now over 

 a thousand people live under the British flag in South Georgia, and the South 

 Orkneys and South Shetlands are a busy hive of industry during the summer 

 months. Traders have even turned their attention to the west coast of the mainland 

 of Graham Land, a direct result of the scientific expeditions sent out by Belgium 

 and France, and altogether over a million pounds sterling of gross annual revenue 

 is now taken in these regions previously considered worthless by business men. 



Some of the monographs published in these scientific results have previously 

 appeared in other publications, and as a consequence it has been suggested that 



