134 ACCOUNT OF GENERAL MEETINGS AND ANNUAL MEETING. 
(the oldest member of the Society present), and seconded by Dr. 
Harrison. Before dispersing the party spent some time in the 
museum in the bungalow, which is noted for the magnificent 
collection of birds it contains. The visit was arranged by Miss 
Roper, with the assistance of Mr. C. J. Hodgson. 
THE 443RD GENERAL, MEETING OF THE SOCIETY. 
October ist, 1914. 
(Bristol Times and Mirror, Oct. 2nd, 1914). 
Mr. Raymond Priestley, who was a member of the expedition 
which went in 19 10 under Captain Scott, to carry out scientific 
work on the Antarctic Continent, gave a delightful lecture at 
Bristol University on " The History of the Northern Party of 
Captain Scott's Expedition." The lecturer, a native of Tewkes- 
bury, was formerly at Bristol University, but is now training at 
Cambridge as a wireless signaller, and will shortly go to the war. 
The lecture was under the auspices of the Bristol Naturalists' 
Society, and Miss I. M. Roper, F.U.S., its President, was in the 
chair. 
The President said they were met to hear Mr. Priestley give 
some account of his experience during the last expedition to the 
South Pole, organised by Capt. Scott, who left England in 1910. 
Mr. Priestley scarcely needed an introduction. She might re- 
mind them, however, that while he was still a student at Bristol 
Universit}^ he was chosen, on account of his great scientific 
abilities, to be a member of an expedition to the South Pole, in 
which he proved such a success that he was again selected for the 
post of geologist on the scientific staff of Ctptain Scott's expedi- 
tion. Inasmuch as Mr. Priestley would speak about a part of the 
world which none of them knew much about, they would listen 
with interest and enjoy what he would tell them. 
The lecturer told the audience that he went in 1910, in con- 
junction with Capt. Scott, with a scientific party to explore a 
district covering 500 miles in South Victoria Land. The party 
consisted of himself, Commander Campbell, Dr. Levick, and 
Seamen Abbott, Browning, and Dickason. Speaking of the 
Antarctic Continent, to which they went, he said that most of it \ 
was a plateau of from 6,000 to 10,000 feet above sea level, which 
would give them some idea of the difficulties of entering such a 
land. He gave an interesting account of the journey south in 
the Terra Nova approaching the Antarctic and presented portraits 
of the chief personages of the expedition. The ship was a 
wooden one because in was less liable to be damaged by pack ice. 
Having established Capt. Scott in his winter quarters, at Rose 
Island, he (the lecturer) and his little party went further to the 
east. They tried to get ashore at King Edward VII. Land, but 
