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THE SOUTH CKORGIA EXPEDITION. 
IXTRODL'CTIOX.' 
The expedition to South Georgia was carried out tlirougli 
an agreement between the American Museum of Natural His- 
tory and the owners of the brig "'Daisy" of Xew P.edford, 
Massachusetts, whereby a representative of the American 
Museum and of the ^vluseum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts 
and Sciences was to reside on board the "Daisv" during a 
cruise for whale and sea-elei)hant oil in the South Atlantic 
Ocean. I was appointed for this work in January. i()i_'. The 
chief objects of the trip were to make a collection of birds at 
South Georgia, and to sectire skeletons and skins of the 
southern sea-elephant ( -l/;V(>(//;i;« Icou'ma). The latter 
object was frustrated h\ the failure of the Gantain to render 
the ruuount of assistance stipulatetl in the contract, but a o-u,,(l 
;EW BEDFORD. 
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