4 British Antarctic Expedition. 
In 1874 H.M.S. Challenger visited the neighbour- 
hood of the supposed Termination Land of Wilkes. 
In 1893-4 the whaler аѕол, with Capt. C. Н. Larsen, 
visited the north-western portion of Antarctica. 
In 1894 the whaler Antarctic crossed the Ant- 
arctic Circle and effected a landing on South Victoria 
Land, and at Possession Island, and reached 74° IO S. 
I was on board the Antarctic at the time, and dis- 
covered, for the first time, a land flora on the Antarctic 
Continent in the form of a small lichen, and saw in 
the water near Cape Adare a live jelly-fish. 
The following extract from my speech before 
the Sixth International Geographical Congress in 
the Imperial Institute gives a short summary of 
what I observed at my first landing on the penin- 
sula at Cape Adare in 1894, and which also may 
have its interest, as it became an important factor 
among those which weighed when I decided to 
choose the place for my pioneer camp. As the 
visit that time only lasted some few hours, my report 
of the place was then naturally very short. 
“ Тһе peninsula on which we landed at Саре 
Adare must be some seventy acres in extent; on 
the top of the guano were lying the primitive nests 
of the penguins, composed of pebbles. Some 
hundreds of yards up these landslips I came upon 
two dead seals, which, from their appearance, must 
have lain there several years. I made a thorough 
investipation of the landing-place, because I believed 
it to be a place where a future scientific expedition 
might safely stop, even during the winter months. 
Several accessible spurs lead up from the place 
where we were to the top of the cape, and from 
