EDWARD ADRIAN WILSON 
AN APPRECIATION 
HILE the. whole civilised world mourns for the gallant 
men who perished. during the British: Antarctic 
Expedition, the author and publishers of 4 fTistory 
of British Mammals especially feel the loss ‘of one who was 
not the least heroic participator in that glorious salle ick 
Dr Edward Adrian Wilson, our artist. 
Encircled as his name is by the halo of a rare achievement, 
he represents to those who did not know him personally, some- 
thing removed above the humdrum existence of ordinary men. 
To us he was a comrade, workmate, warm-hearted friend of very 
visible and entirely human flesh and blood. 
On the return.of Captain Scott’s first Antarctic Expedition 
in the Discovery in 1904, Wilson, hitherto practically: unknown 
either as artist or zoologist, attracted much attention by his 
marvellous rendering of Antarctic scenery and animal life. 
His pictures of the seals and penguins brought those, at that 
time almost apocryphal creatures,. before the public -with a 
vigour, fidelity of attitude, and brilliancy of colouring never, we 
believe, previously attained. 
In admiration of these paintings we opened up negotiations 
with the object of securing his services for our illustrations, 
negotiations which were not hindered by the fact that author and 
artist had at Cambridge attended the same lectures, frequented 
the same laboratories, and finished equal in the Tripos of 1894. 
To complete the parallel, both were candidates for appointment 
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