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pany’s boat, the R.M.S. Montebello, as second mate 
under the able and courteous Capt. Pepper. In 
addition he passed for extra master in November 1897, 
and was gazetted sub-lieutenant R.N.R. in June, 1898. 
Subsequently he studied on behalf of the expedition 
at the Kew Observatory, making a special feature of 
magnetism, and it was as Magnetic Observer that 
he accompanied the expedition under my command. 
His father, Mr. Christopher Colbeck, is of the firm of 
Messrs. Colbeck 
and Walker, of 
Hull. 
Louis Вет- 
nacchi. Born in 
ШЕЛ Бапа on 
November 8th, 
1876, his father, 
be x G, D. 
Bernacchi, being 
a well-known 
и с таптап 
colonist. Edu- 
cated at the 
Hutchins School 
of Hobart, and 
privately, he 
entered the 
Melbourne Ob- 
servatory in MR. BERNACCHI. 
1805, where 
he spent: about three years studying magnetism 
and meteorology. In 1897 he was appointed to 
the Belgian Antarctic expedition. He was to have 
