VI EDITORIAL NOTE. 



and here and there a few explanatory notes have been inserted at the bottom of the 

 page. Otherwise it stands exactly as it was written from day to day. 



While Mr D. W. WILTON was the recorder for by far the greater part of the voyage, 

 it was occasionally necessary for him, during his absence on sledge and boat journeys, 

 to delegate the task to another member of the scientific staff, usually Mr R. N. RUDMOSE 

 BROWN ; when this was the case it has been recorded in a note. During the summer 

 months of 1 903-04, when the " Scotia " was absent coaling and refitting at the Falkland 

 Islands and Buenos Aires, Dr J. H. HARVEY PIRIE was the author of the " Zoological 

 Log of Omond House, Scotia Bay." 



I have to thank Mr R. N. RUDMOSE BROWN for the very great help he has given me 

 in the editing of this part of Volume IV. ; I have also been aided by Professor J. 

 ARTHUR THOMSON and Mrs BRDCE in the final revision of the proofs. The work is 

 greatly enhanced by the coloured frontispiece of Mr WILLIAM SMITH, of Aberdeen, 

 doubly valuable since he has had experience as artist in a Polar expedition. I have 

 to cordially thank Messrs BLACKWOOD for the use of blocks for no less than fifteen 

 of the illustrations, which have previously appeared in their interesting publication 

 entitled The Voyage of the Scotia, and Messrs ROWLAND WARD for allowing their 

 photograph of the great sea-lion to appear. 



WILLIAM S. BRUCE, 



Editor. 



