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Sciences in tliat city the collections of Charles Lucien 

 Bonaparte, Prince of Canino and of Musignano, and of many 

 others which helped to make the fame of the Museum of the 

 Philadelphia Academy. Edward Wilson travelled in Europe 

 and secured rare bird-skins for his brother, besides forming 

 for himself a fine collection of humming-birds, some of 

 which were figured in Gould's great work. 



The Antarctic traveller was born on the 23rd of July, 1872, 

 and was the son of Dr. Edward T. Wilson of Cheltenham. 

 He was educated at Cheltenham College, and subsequently 

 at Cains College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. and 

 M.B,, and was placed in the first-class in Part I. of the 

 Natural Science Tripos in 1894. Sul^sequently, he studied 

 at St. George's Hospital, London, but ill-health compelled 

 him to spend some years abroad. His health had only just 

 been re-established when he joined the ' Discovei'y ' as a 

 member of Captain Scott^s first Antarctic Expedition in 

 1901, and after his trip to the polar regions he returned 

 robust and strong. 



In addition to his medical duties on the Antarctic 

 Expedition, Wilson was appointed Vertebrate Zoologist and 

 Artist, and his work is constantly referred to in terms of 

 enthusiastic commendation in Scott's narrative. In one 

 passage that writer says : — 



" It would be difficult to say who is the most diligent, 

 but perhaps the palm would be given to Wilson, who is 



always at work Wilson starts his day eaily by an 



examination of the breakfast food. His next business is to 

 see to the ventilation of the living spaces, which he does 

 so thoroughly that when we couae to breakfast there is no 

 complaint about the freshness of the air, though occa- 

 sionally people appear in fur mits as a mute protest against 

 the temperature. He next takes the 8 o'clock meteoro- 

 logical observation, and after the men are told off for the 

 work of the day his business takes him to the superinten- 

 dence of those who are detailed for bird-skinning, and who 

 carry on this work in the main hut. Under his direction a 

 few of the men have become quite expert taxidermists, and 



