62 THE SOUTH AND ITS SCIENTIFIC SCOPE 
illustration for Boss's 'Account of the Voyage of Discovery 
and Eesearch.' ^ 
To his Aunt (Mary Turner) ho writes (April 18, 1843) : 
In drawing I do not improve much, though I have made 
several sketches of the different places we have visited. 
There is now but one tolerable artist in the Expedition, 
Mr. Davis ^ of the Terror. Dayman ^ (Aunt Ellen's 
acquaintance), who was the best, is left behind in Van 
Diemen's Land. Your pencil would be invaluable here, 
though you [would] have grown heartily tired of Bergs and 
Ice. Capt. Eoss used often to make me sketch coastlines 
of hills and valleys of snow, which is most miserable 
work. Could I have coloured, nothing would be so grand 
as a view of the scenes we have visited, if in fine weather ; 
but let the weather be what it will, an Iceberg is always a 
treacherous thing at the best. 
I am very anxious to know what Fitch * is about ; he 
has sent me a very pretty fancy sketch of flowers, for which 
I am extremely obhged to him ; it was very kind of him 
to think of me ; in return I have been making a sketch of 
a curious Iceberg with a hole in it for him. The berg is 
fair enough, but the sea will not do. He could copy it and 
with excellent effect ; it was blowing hard and there were 
some black scudding clouds near the moon, which was 
reflected on the tips of the waves, close to the edge of the 
berg. The water should be of an intense cobalt blue, and 
it should reflect a white glare on the sea. There are no 
harsh lines on an Iceberg ; the shadows should be faint 
and the Ughts bright. 
This drawing, duly copied by Fitch, was doubtless among 
those shown to Prince Albert, when Sir Wilham was summoned 
to Buckingham Palace in the spring of 1842 to give some 
account of the progress of the Expedition. 
1 See the list, p. 86, footnote. 
2 J. E. Davis was second master of the Terror. 
3 Joseph Dayman was mate on the Erebus, and afterwards lieutenant on 
the Rattlesnake^ in which Huxley was naturalist. In 1840-1, while Ross 
made his first cruise to the South, Dayman was one of the three officers who 
remained in charge of the magnetic observatory in Tasmania. 
* Walter Fitch (1817-92) was originally a pattern-drawer in a calico 
printing factory. He entered Sir W. Hooker's service in 1834, and for half a 
century continued as the official draughtsman for the Kew botanical publications. 
