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and measurements. On the whole “ we have 
remained surprisingly constant/’ but there 
seemed to be improvement in lung power and 
grip. 
“Many Inventions.” 
Practical work of all sorts went forward 
with a view to the needs of future expedi- 
tions. We read of Petty-Officer Evans, with 
his usual ingenuity, devising new forms of 
ski-boots and crampons to be used with the 
warm finnesko, or fur boots, providing 
lightness, warmth, comfort, and ease ; of 
Cherry-Garrard starting practice in building- 
stone huts and Eskimo igloos likely to be 
needed on the winter expedition to the penguin 
rookery in which he was to take part, while 
later others joined in, and special knives were 
designed for cu tting the icy slabs that compose 
the igloo walls. Scott experimented in person 
upon the comfort of a hole in the snow, and 
found it as excellently warm as the dogs 
seemed to find it. Debenham invented a 
“ go-cart,” or sledge on wheels, which in 
certain conditions of the snow ran better than 
on the ordinary runners. Day and Lashley 
invented a simple and effective stove to burn 
blubber, which was to prove of the utmost 
service on expeditions near the sea, when seals 
could be found. Officers who were to take 
part in the expeditions perfected themselves 
in such branches of surveying as would be 
useful for charting their journeys and finding 
their way. 
Telephones. 
Telephones were established with great 
effect, the first to the isolated chamber in 
the neighbouring ice-hill, where magnetic 
instruments and pendulums were at work in 
an even temperature, so that accurate time 
signals could be transmitted between these 
and the transit instrument in the interior 
of the hut. Another was taken to the ice- 
hole, three-quarters of a mile away, where 
Nelson had the tide-gauge. Here connection 
was made with a bare aluminium wire and 
earth return, the success of which encouraged 
them to the bold scheme of linking up with 
Hut Point, fifteen miles away. This, too, 
worked admirably ; it was no small relief and 
satisfaction to be in touch with this distant 
outpost and to have instant news of the various 
parties who went out depot-laying, or of 
Meares when he chose this hermitage for 
undisturbed training of the dogs. 
Seott’s Own Description of the Expedi 
tion to Cape Crozier. 
The most striking event of the winter season 
was the expedition of Wilson, Bowers, and 
Cherry-Garrard to the Emperor Penguin 
rookery at Cape Crozier, the eastern extremity 
