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of new lands—was done. Her investigations were more confined 
to a study of.the deeper regions of the sea. Very valuable scien- 
tific results were obtained, however, and through her soundings 
and dredgings and in connection with previous discoveries, Dr 
Murray has been able to outline the Antarctic continent. 
In the fall of 1892 an expedition, consisting of four steam 
whalers, was fitted out from Dundee, Scotland. The Royal Geo- 
graphical Society well equipped them with scientific instruments, 
such as chronometers and meteorological instruments, and the 
surgeons on board of two of the vessels, the Balena and the Active, 
were selected on account of their general scientific training. An 
account of this expedition may be found in the Scottish Geo- 
graphical Magazine for February, 1894. The two ships, the 
Active and the Balzna, left the Falkland islands December 11, 
cruising about in search of whales until January 2, when they 
had reached a latitude of 67° S. On January 6, 1893, a landing 
was made ona beach of Erebus and Terror bay, where a few 
specimens of seaweed and moss were found and preserved. No 
whales of value, as the true whalebone whale, were seen, but of 
the southern finner and the common hunchback large numbers 
were encountered. Specimens of the bottlenose and two other 
species were captured, possibly the Orea capensis and the Globio- 
cephalus. Seals were plentiful and a good catch was made in a 
short time, four species being observed, apparently identical with 
those described by Ross, but it is doubtful whether the true fur- 
seal was found. 
There was a Norwegian sealer, the Jason, in the same vicinity 
this season. She collected on Seymour island, in Erebus and 
Terror bay, a number of fossils, which have since been deter- 
mined as belonging to the lower tertiary.* 
In September, 1893, another Norwegian steam whaler, the Ant- 
arctic, sailed from Tonsberg, Norway, for the southern regions, 
She was sent out by Commander Svend Foéyn. Her sailing 
master is Captain Leonard Christensen; she is barque-rigged ; 
tonnage, 226, and carries eight whale-boats. Meteorological and 
other observations are to be made. Last season, in the vicinity 
of Kerguelen islands, 1,500 seals were caught inside of eight 
days, no fur-seals, however, being found. At these latter islands 
the vessel visited Royal sound, where a colony of 59 persons 
was found, consisting of Europeans, Chinese and Indians. She 
* Geographical Journal, January, 1894, p. 11. 
30—Nart. Grog. Mae., vot. VI, 1894. 
