8 A NEW WHALE 



flannel shirts and socialist soft caps; adding to the 

 innumerable difficulties of the game by playing in high 

 stocks, ' Gladstone ' collars and unbending ' toppers.' 

 Noblesse oblige : and in days when men played cricket, 

 went fly-fishing, and even deer-stalking, in what the 

 Scots caddie calls a ' lum ha-at,' it would never have 

 done for members of the Royal and Ancient to have 

 shrunk from the universal test of 'noblemen and 

 gentlemen.' 



I thank you, Mr. Everard, for a most agreeable hour 

 spent in conning your chronicle, and for the excellent 

 judgment with which you have caused to be reproduced 

 the likenesses of notable golfers of an elder age. Our 

 sense of portraiture has been sadly blunted by the 

 relentless camera which reveals nothing but the skin- 

 deep. It requires such brush and pencil work as is 

 here reproduced to bring back to us the personalities 

 of the past, recreating the impression they made on 

 the senses of a competent painter. 



II 



Rumours of an Antarctic whale, unknown to science, 



A New nave reached this country from time to time, 



whale exciting interest, tinged with scepticism, 



among European naturalists. These rumours have been 



amply confirmed by Mr. E. A. Wilson, naturalist to the 



recent Discovery expedition. On January 28, 1902, 



three of these whales, easily recognised by the high 



and narrow back fin, were seen off Ross's great ice 



barrier, and four others on February 8 following. 



