454 ANNUAL EEPOET SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1908. 



two months on the ice pack the expedition, relieved by the Argentine 

 ship Uruguay^ brought the results of observations taken at three dif- 

 ferent places, and completed by the journeys made by its chief over 

 the ice pack at King Oscar Land.*^ But part of the collection was 

 lost with the Antarctic. 



M. Otto Nordenskjold was still at Buenos Aires when the Frangais 

 arrived with Doctor Charcot. As soon as he decided upon the 

 expedition, with the support of the Academy of Sciences and of the 

 Museum, M. Charcot had his ship built and hastily equipped, in 

 order that France might share in discoveries in West Antarctica. 

 The devotion and the spirit of endurance that marked the entire ex- 

 pedition during a stay of a year in the midst of the ice, bore full fruit. 

 Two cruises permitted a survey of the Palmer Archipelago on the 

 Pacific side, the exploration of the south part of de Gerlache Strait, 

 and the resetting of survey marks on Biscoe Archipelago, as also on 

 Loubet Land. The winter of 1904 was spent at Port Charcot ( Wandel 

 Island) and gave opportunity for continuous, accurate, and varied 

 observations, completed during sojourns at Port Lockroy (Wiencke 

 Island).'' Figure 1 indicates the geographical importance of this 

 work, even when compared with the work of the Belglca and 

 Antarctic.^ 



Exploration of the ice felds to the south of the Atlantic and Indian 



oceans. 



Wliile it was thus established that south of Cape Horn there existed 

 a land remarkably symmetrical v>^ith the extremity of South America, 



°' Otto Nordenskjold : Au pole autarctiqne. Translated by Cli. Rabot. Paris, 

 1904. 8°. 



Otto Nordenskjold et Gunnar Andersson : The Swedish Antarctic expedition. 

 Geogr. Journ., 3904, pp. 207-220. 



O. Nordenskjold : Resnltats scientifiques de I'expedition antax'Ctique suedoise. 

 La Geogr., 1904. Vol. II, pp. 351-3G2. Ibid., Note sur la glaciation antarctique. 

 La Geogr., 1904. Vol. I, p. 5. 



Seven volumes on the scientific results are announced ; the publication of those 

 referring to the natural history began in 1907. See several memoirs published 

 in the Bull, de I'lnst. geol. de I'Univ. d'Upsal. and reviewed in the excellent 

 bibliography in Ann. de Geogi". ; O. Nordenskjold : Recherches sur I'Antarctide 

 de rOuest ; Gunnar Andersson : Sur la geologie de la Terre de Graham. 



^Doctor Charcot: Le "Frangais" au pole Sud, Paris, 1906. 8°. 



The volumes on scientific results are in preparation, to be issued at the Gov- 

 ernment's expense and under the direction of a commission chosen by the 

 Academy of Sciences and by the Museum. A resume of the observations may 

 be found in the appendix at the end of the above-cited volume. See especially 

 the note on meteorological observations by J. J. Rey (pp. 349-399) ; description 

 of animal and vegetable life by J. Turquet (pp. 415-444) ; study of geology and 

 of glaciology by E. Gourdon (pp. 444-4G0). Doctor Charcot has besides written 

 about the scientific works of the expedition in La Geogr., 1906, pp. 245-260. 



