PREFACE v 
Further details of the scientific work done by the expedition will be found in 
“Seott’s Last Voyage” (Smith, Elder & Co., 1913). 
When the collections reached England arrangements for working out many of the 
groups were made, and it was decided to issue the Zoological Reports from time to 
time, as they were ready for publication. The subject-matter was distributed 
provisionally among as many volumes as seemed likely to be required, the first to 
include the Vertebrates, the second the Molluscs and Worms, and the third the 
Arthropods. These three volumes have now been closed, and the outstanding 
reports on these groups will appear in other volumes of the series. 
C. TATE REGAN, 
Keeper of Zoology. 
19th January 1924. 
