2 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
generation, who, impelled only by a love for science, devoted 
themselves to its pursuit, under no ordinary circumstances. 
Mr. R. Anderson entered the naval service in June, 1838, 
having received his diploma for surgery from the College of 
Surgeons of Edinburgh. He served from 1839 to 1842 on the 
Mediterranean station, and from 1843 to 1847 on the East Indian 
station. He was promoted surgeon, November, 1846, and served 
in the ‘Investigator,’ Captain Bird, during the Arctic Expedition 
of 1848—49 under Sir James Ross, and in the ‘Enterprise,’ 
Captain Collinson, from December, 1849, to May, 1855, during 
which commission he passed three successive winters in the 
Arctic Regions. He died at Edinburgh on June 24th, 1856.* 
The sole object of the voyage of H.M.S. ‘Enterprise,’ was to 
search for traces of the lost Franklin Expedition. How nobly 
that duty was performed is known to comparatively few, and only 
to those who have read the official journals of the Expedition, for 
the history of that voyage has yet to be written for the public. 
The ‘Enterprise,’ under the command of Captain, now 
Admiral Sir Richard Collinson, having sailed through Behring 
Straits, rounded Point Barrow, the most northern promontory of 
Alaska, and pushing through the pack-ice gained the land-water 
on July 81st, 1851. Forcing his way to the eastward, by keeping 
close to the shores of the American continent, Collinson passed 
Cape Bathurst, August 25th, on which date the south shore of 
Banks Land was seen to the northward. The ‘Enterprise,’ now 
headed in that direction, and on August 27th, Prince of Wales 
Strait, the channel lying between Banks and Prince Albert Land, 
was entered, and by midnight of August 29th their farthest point 
in that direction was reached, viz., lat. 73° 80’ N., and long. 
114° 85’ W., a frozen sea of a little less than sixty miles in extent 
separating them from the most western position gained by Parry, 
sailing from the eastward in 1819, and the accomplishment of the 
North-west Passage. 
Returning southwards, a convenient harbour was found on the 
western shore of Prince Albert Land, in lat. 71° 35’ N., and long. 
117° 35’ W.: this place was given the name of Winter Cove, and 
there the ‘Enterprise’ remained, shut in by the ice, till the 
following year, On August 5th, 1852, the ‘Enterprise’ left 
Winter Cove and proceeded eastward along the south shore of 
* For Obituary notice see Journ. R. G. S. xxvii, p. exiii. 
