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trimmed them as plates, and they added greatly to the beauty 

 of the resulting volume. 



I had handed in my official report on the first western 

 journey to Captain Scott, and now busied myself with a com- 

 parison of the meteorological results of the 1902 and 19 10 

 expeditions. 



The temperature curves are very interesting and are shown 

 in the annexed figure. 



On the 5th of June, I gave a lecture on a place I had 

 never seen and probably will never see — the Beardmore Glacier. 

 I had to spend a considerable 

 amount of time in reading it up 

 in Shackleton's book. Scott had 

 lent his copy to Campbell, so that 

 mine was the only copy in the 

 hut, and was naturally consulted 

 by everybody. It is a unique 

 copy, for all the expedition signed 

 it, so that it forms the last col- 

 lection of such autographs ; and 

 later Sir Ernest was good enough 

 to write a brief letter therein on 

 the opposite page. 



Curiously enough there was 

 one aspect of the Beardmore on which I could speak with 

 some authority. I had spent two years in Cambridge doing 



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