iv PREFACE 
In this work on the ship several officers helped. Mr. Lillie also wishes to 
acknowledge the assistance in trawling and in winding up plankton nets given, often 
out of working hours, by Seamen A. S. Bailey, A. Balson, W. L. Heald, J. Leese, 
M. McCarthy, T. F. McLeod, and T. S. Williamson. Seaman McLeod also mended 
nets; others who should be mentioned are Boatswain A. Cheetham, who helped 
with the trawl and supplied tackle, Carpenter F. E. C. Davies, who made frames for 
nets, and Chief Engineer W. Williams, who repaired trawl frames and other iron 
gear. 
In addition to the trawling and tow-netting Mr. Lillie paid special attention to 
whales, recording all those seen from the ship. In October 1911 he visited the 
Whaling Station at Whangamumu, near the Bay of Islands, and in 1912 he spent 
four months (July to October) in the same region on two floating factories belonging 
to the New Zealand Whaling Company, He is the author of the Report on the 
Cetacea (Zoology, Vol. I, No. 8). 
That accomplished naturalist and skilful artist, the late Dr. E. A. Wilson, was 
the chief biologist of the shore party; he was mainly responsible for the collection 
of Birds, the report on which will include many reproductions of the sketches he 
made. Dr. Wilson, with the late Lieutenant H. R. Bowers and Mr. A. Cherry-Garrard, 
undertook a most arduous and hazardous winter journey to the Emperor Penguin 
Rookery at Cape Crozier, to secure eggs with a series of early embryos, material that 
is now in the hands of Professor J. Cossar Ewart, F.R.S. Staff-Surgeon G. Murray- 
Levick, R.N., made numerous observations on the habits of the Adélie Penguin, and 
has written a report on this subject (Zoology, Vol. I, No. 2) illustrated by photographs 
that he took, Surgeon-Captain E. L. Atkinson, R.N., parasitologist to the expedition, 
collected and studied numerous parasites, the Antarctic material being taken chiefly 
from seals and fishes during the winter of 1911. The results of his work appear in 
the Report on Parasitic Worms (Zoology, Vol. II, No. 8) prepared by him in con- 
junction with Dr. R. T. Leiper, F.R.S. 
