THE ANTARCTIC LAND OF VICTORIA. FROM THE 
VOYAGE OF THE “ DISCOVERY.” 
By Maurice ZIMMERMANN. 
It is now possible to measure the full significance of the results 
obtained by the great British national expedition of the Discovery to 
the Antarctic Land of Victoria and Ross Barrier during the period 
from 1901 to 1904. Prior to 1905 fairly abundant but preliminary 
information was furnished by the Royal Geographical Society of 
London, faithfully kept up-to-date by its former president, Sir 
Clements R. Markham, who had been one of the most ardent pro- 
moters of the enterprise. Then came the admirable account of the 
expedition by Capt. R. F. Scott, one of the most sincere, humane, 
and substantial, which it has been our privilege to read, and the 
book of Lieut. A. B. Armitage.? 
Finally, there began to appear in December, 1906, under the direc- 
tion of the Royal Society of London, the volumes of scientific 
memoirs. Their publication has been effected with remarkable ra- 
pidity, nine volumes having already appeared and an album of 
maps, of which the Geographical Society of London has assumed 
the expense of publication. The Royal Society had given the sur- 
veillance of elaboration of the various documents into the hands of 
a special commission and Sir Archibald Geikie, its secretary. The 
trustees of the British Museum took the collection of natural his- 
tory in charge. The distribution of the collections and the selection 
of specialists was the work of Mr. E. Ray Lankaster, director of the 
Natural History Museum, and of Mr. Jeffrey Bell. 
The scientific results appear in very luxurious form. The selec- 
tion of paper, the beauty of the photographs, the abundant pano- 
ramic views and the colored plates, the frequent reproduction of 
“Translated by permission from Annales de Géographie, Paris, No. 98, 18th 
year, March 15, 1909. 
5 Capt. R. F. Scott, ‘The Voyage of the Discovery,” London, 1905, and Lieut. 
A. B. Armitage, ‘Two Years in the Antarctic, Being a Narrative of the British 
National Antarctic Expedition,’ London, 1905. 
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