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tific purposes in these kingdoms. It is 

 an honor to receive the command of 

 her ; but we are impressed with the 

 difficulty of the enterprise which has 

 been entrusted to you and with the se- 

 rious character of your responsibilities. 

 The expedition is an undertaking of 

 national importance, and science cannot 

 fail to benefit from the efforts of those 

 engaged in it. You ma}^ rely upon our 

 support on all occasions, and we feel 

 assured that all on board the Discovery 

 will do their utmost to further the 

 objects of the expedition. 



INSTRUCTIONS TO THE SCIENTIFIC 

 DIRECTOR OF THE CIVILIAN SCIEN- 

 TIFIC STAFF 



1. The Royal Society and the Royal 

 Geographical Society have approved 

 your appointment as director of the 

 civilian scientific staff of their Antarctic 

 expedition. 



2. A copy of the instructions to the 

 commander of the expedition accom- 

 panies these instructions, which are 

 supplemental to them. You will see 

 from the instructions to the commander 

 what the objects of the expedition are, 

 and your position relatively to them. 



3. You will direct the scientific work 

 of the gentlemen who have been ap- 

 pointed to assist you. 



4. The names of the gentlemen as- 

 sociated with you are as follows : ( i ) Mr . 

 Hodgson, biologist ; (2) Mr. Shackle- 

 ton, physicist. The services of the two 

 medical officers will be at your disposal 

 for scientific work when not engaged 

 on the work of their own department, 

 namely, Dr. Koettlitz, botanist, and 

 Dr. Wilson, zoologist. 



5. You will note that the commander 

 of the expedition has been instructed 

 to communicate freely with you on all 

 inatters connected with the scientific 

 objects of the expedition, and, as far as 

 possible, to meet your views and wishes 

 in connection with them. The societies 

 feel assured that you will cooperate and 



act in concert with him, with a view, 

 as far as possible, to secure the success 

 of an enterprise which it is hoped will 

 be attended with important results in 

 the various branches of science which 

 it is intended to investigate. 



6. All collections, logs, journals, 

 charts, drawings, photographs, obser- 

 vations, and scientific data will be the 

 joint property of the two societies, to 

 be disposed of as may be decided by 

 them. Before the final return of the 

 expedition you are to demand from the 

 staff under your control all such data, 

 which are to be sealed up and delivered 

 to the two presidents or dealt with as 

 they may direct. On the return of the 

 expedition you will be expected to 

 superintend the distribution of speci- 

 mens to specialists approved of \>y the 

 two councils or their representatives 

 and to edit the resulting reports. You 

 will also be expected to contribute a re- 

 port on the scientific results of the expe- 

 dition for the official narrative. As it 

 may be desirable during the progress of 

 the V03' age that some new scientific dis- 

 covery should be at once made known 

 in the interest of science, you will in 

 such a case inform us of it by the earliest 

 opportunity. 



7. You and the other members of the 

 expedition will not be at libert)'', with- 

 out our consent, to make any communi 

 cation to the press on matters relating 

 in any way to the affairs of the expedi- 

 tion, nor to publish independent narra- 

 tives until six months after the issue of 

 the official narrative. All communica- 

 tions are to be made to us, addressed to 

 the care of the secretary of the National 

 Antarctic expedition, I^ondon. 



8. Should au}^ vacancies in the scien- 

 tific staff occur after the expedition has 

 sailed from England, you may, with the 

 concurrence of the commander, make 

 such arrangements as you think desira- 

 ble to fill the same, should no one have 

 been appointed from England. 



9. You and the members of the scien- 



