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The whole party, except those with Lieut. Campbell,, 

 were united at the hut in May, 1911. During the winter 

 and early spring, continued outdoor work was necessarily 

 suspended, but Wright carried out pendulum work with 

 apparatus lent by Berlin, of great interest in connection 

 with the flattening of the earth at the South Pole. The 

 geologists were engaged in mapping the local topography— 

 a series of Kenyte outcrops covered by huge moraines 

 exhibiting Kame features. The relations of the two peno- 

 logical provinces, Kenyte and olivine basalt, occupied 

 Debenham's attention. Numerous seals and penguins 

 destined for food, were examined by Dr. Atkinson, and new 

 protozoan parasites discovered. The most notable feature, 

 however, was the heroic journey in midwinter to Gape 

 Crozier. This was led by Dr. Wilson with the object of 

 collecting the embryonic stages of the Emperor Penguin. 

 Their five weeks journey in the dark, at a temperature 

 frequently lower than 100° of frost, will long remain a 

 Polar record. Three stages of the embryos were collected, 

 and should prove of great value in the study of bird 

 evolution. 



Lieutenant Evans occupied the early spring in the careful 

 triangulation of MacMurdo Sound, while later, Captain 

 Scott led a short expedition across to the west, when he 

 measured the movement of the Ferrar glacier (staked by 

 the geological party in February), and discovered that a 

 three-mile fragment of Glacier Tongue had drifted 60 miles 

 to the north-west and stranded near Dunlop Island. 



Dr. Simpson was very successful in sounding the upper 

 atmosphere. His small balloons carried Dine's meteorgraphs 

 up to distances as great as five miles, and most valuable 

 and interesting graphs of temperature and pressure have 

 been recorded. 



