ICEBERGS IN THE SOUTHERN OCEAN. 221 
ICEBERGS IN THE SOUTHERN OCEAN, No. 2. 
By H. C. RousseExt, B.A., 0.M.G., F.R.S. 
(With Plate XVIII.] 
[Read before the Royal Society of N. S. Wales, October 6, 1897.] 
Tue following note about recent icebergs is intended to be taken 
as a continuation of my first paper on this subject.’ The reports 
of icebergs which follow have been collected from several sources. 
(A) from the logs which have been sent to me by the commanders 
and masters of sixty-two vessels trading to Sydney, without whose 
aid it would be impossible to carry on the work. (B) Some reports 
of ice have been taken from the Nautical Magazine, and (C’) from 
the daily press. All of them have been collected since July 1895. 
when my first list closed, although a very few refer to an earlier 
date. 
It is remarkable, and as we shall presently see, important, that 
during the three months following July 1895, not a single report 
of icebergs was received. The next month, November, two vessels, 
and in December five vessels reported icebergs. In January 1896 
the icebergs again disappeared from the track of vessels coming 
to Australia, and not a-single report of icebergs in January, 
February, March, or April 1896, reached me. May brought 
three reports of icebergs; June not one. Then every month to 
the end of the year brought reports of icebergs, and in January 
1897 they came faster than ever during the six years included in 
these records, and twenty vessels reported ice during that month, 
twelve reported ice in February, and seven in March ; then all the 
icebergs again disappeared from the track, and up to the end of 
September 1897 only one ship has reported ice. 
1 Journal Roy. Soc. of N.S.W., Sept. 4, 1895. 
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