1 86 kerguelen's land. 



neighbouring islands, remarkably equable. It is never very 

 warm, never very cold. In the middle of winter, during Ross's 

 stay there, the thermometer rarely fell below freezing point, 

 and the snow never lay on the lower land more than two or 

 three days. The whalers told us that it was very rarely that 

 ice formed which would bear ; and Sir J. D. Hooker speaks of 

 breaking ice on the Christmas Harbour Lake only two inches 

 thick, and taking from under it Limosella in full flower. 



During our stay, the highest reading of the thermometer was 

 59° F., and the lowest 39°'5 F. : the mean about 43° or 44° : 

 this in the middle of summer, or rather slightly past the 

 middle. The bane of the place consists in the constantly 

 occurring sudden storms of wind, one of which made us drag 

 our anchor at Betsy Cove, and might easily have sent the ship 

 against the rocks, and two of which kept us tediously beating 

 about off the land on two occasions, when we were making 

 from one point to another. 



For a complete list of the birds of Kerguelen's Land, see R. Bovvdler 

 .Sharpe, F.L.S., F.Z.S. "Trans, of Venus Expedition, Zoology of Ker- 

 guelen's Land. Birds." From this paper the names of birds given above 

 are taken. 



For the Crustacea, see E. J. Meirs, F.LS., F.Z.S., Trans. Venus Expedition. 

 Ibid. 



For the Terrestrial Annelida, see E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S. Ibid. 



See "Further Contributions to the Natural History of Kerguelen's 

 Island," by J. H. Kidder, M.D. "Bull. U.S. National Mus.," No. 3, 

 1876, II. For a nearly complete list of the fauna and of the literature of 

 the Zoology of Kerguelen's Land, see Dr. Th. Studer, " Die Fauna von 

 Kerguelen's Land." Troschels Archiv. 1879. 1*"='. Hft. s. 104. 



See also, for an account of the island, " Narrative of the Wreck of the 

 ' Favourite 'on the Island of Desolation; Detailing the Adventures, Suffer- 

 ings and Privations of John Munn ; an Historical Account of the Island 

 and its Whale and Sea Fisheries." Edited by W. B. Clarke, M.D. 

 London, 1S50. 



