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beginning that he would accompany Captain Scott on 

 his great journey to the South Pole itself. It meant 

 that Scott considered him not only as physically fit for 

 the work, but also that he would be invaluable in aiding 

 him in skilled scientific investigation — an estimate fully 

 justified by his important geological researches along 

 with Bowers in the vicinity of the Beardmore Glacier — 

 and most particularly, that he would be a trusty 

 companion. 



Wilson had the happy faculty of getting on with almost 

 everybody in many different walks of Hfe. There was 

 no sense of rivalry in his scientific work : his aim was to 

 do the best he could, and, at the same time, he appre- 

 ciated the best in others working in similar or in different 

 directions. Carlyle rightly says : " It is a most serious 

 thing to be aUve in this world ; to die is not sport for 

 a man. Man's life never was a sport for him ; it was a 

 stern reahty altogether, a serious matter to be aUve." 

 Yet Wilson and his brave comrades have given up their 

 lives for an ideal, and they have done so without a 

 murmur. Our heartfelt sympathy goes out towards 

 those nearest and dearest to him, and above all to his 

 widow. 



[We greatly regret to have to announce that Mr. Henry 

 J. Pearson, well knouii for his ornithological journeys in the 

 north of Europe, died suddenly in Egj^i^t on February 8th. 

 In our next number we hope to publish a memoir of 

 Mr. Pearson from the pen of Colonel H. W. Feilden.— Eds.] 



