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in a similar way ; and in Switzerland, New Zealand, and 

 similar regions, it is difficult to decide whether the living 

 waters or the long-vanished glaciers have cut out a certain 

 gorge or canyon. Where, then, is the solution to be found ? 

 We cannot observe Europe in the clutch of an Ice Age ; but 

 it is possible to find a region — once, no doubt, as warm as 

 portions of Europe — now undergoing its period of intense 

 cold and accompanying glacial erosion. 



In almost waterless Antarctica the land is being slowly 

 carved out into features which must be related to those 

 obtaining in Alpine Europe and other elevated regions, if 

 (as I believe) the Great Ice Age has left an unmistakable 

 imprint of itself in a characteristic topography. 



I may fittingly conclude the " series of introductions " by 

 a list of the officers. This gives their positions ; and, what 

 may be found more useful to the reader, their nicknames and 

 the personnel of the various parties into which the expedition 

 split up on arrival in Antarctica. 



LIST OF OFFICERS AND THEIR PARTIES. 



Leader. — Captain Robert Falcon Scott. 



Second in Command. — Lieutenant E. R. G. R. Evans. 



Chief of Scientific Staff. — Dr. E. A. Wilson. 



Ship. 



Harry Pennell, Commander R.N. 

 Henry de P. Rennick, Lieutenant R.N. 

 Wilfred M. Bruce, Commander R.N. 

 Francis Drake, Assist. Paymaster R.N. (retired). 

 Dennis Lillie, M.A., Biologist. 

 James Dennistoun (1911-12 voyage). 

 Alfred B. Cheetham, R.N.R., Boatswain. 

 William Williams, Engineer. 



Shore Parties. 



A. Northern Party (Jan. 1 9 1 1 -Nov. 191 2). 



Victor Campbell, Lieutenant R.N. 

 G. Murray Levick, Surgeon R.N. 

 Raymond Priestley, Geologist. 

 (And Abbott, Dickason, Browning.) 



