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subject, but deals generally with the zoology and botany of the 
voyage, the formation of icebergs, the denudation of exposed 
ranges, the manners and customs of the various races met with, 
their weapons, mode of warfare, and so forth. In several respects 
it reminds us of Mr. Darwin’s ‘ Naturalist’s Voyage round the 
World,’ which Mr. Moseley, very commendably, seems to have 
taken as his model of what such a journal should be. Leaving 
the details of the dredgings and deep-sea soundings, which formed 
the chief object of the undertaking, to be dealt with by specialists 
in this kind of work, Mr. Moseley records the chief incidents of 
the voyage, and his impressions of the places visited, while he 
intersperses these with numerous valuable observations on various 
subjects of Natural History. Among these scientific notes marine 
objects naturally receive a considerable share of attention; but 
the author’s remarks appertain, in a greater degree, to the pro- 
ductions of the earth, and as the vessel, in the course of the three 
years and a half which the voyage occupied, touched at a great 
many out-of-the-way places, Mr. Moseley has been enabled to 
make many valuable additions to our knowledge of the natural 
history of the globe. 
Upon the nesting habits of the various sea-birds which occur 
in such numbers on the almost inaccessible rocky islands scattered 
over both oceans, Mr. Moseley gives some curious information. 
His account of the different species of Penguins met with, notably 
the King Penguin (Aptenodytes longirostris) on Marion Island 
(pp. 176-—179) is especially interesting. On this island was seen 
a flock of about thirty Sheathbills (Chionis minor). On one other 
occasion only did Mr. Moseley observe this bird congregating in 
numbers; but that they should thus assemble in flocks when not 
breeding is what might be expected from their affinity to the 
Plovers and Oystercatchers. The appearance of the Great Alba- 
trosses on Marion Island while sitting on their nests on the 
ground must be very remarkable. From the woodcut on p. 172 
they give one the idea, at a little distance, of a number of sheep 
scattered over a hill-side. 
A curious fact was noted on Inaccessible Island, one of the 
Tristan da Cunha group, which shows how the habits of animals 
become modified, and even completely altered, by force of circum- 
stances. The pigs on this island, although feeding on the roots 
of the tussock and wild celery, live mainly on birds and their 
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