MURPHV: REI'dRT ON THE SOUTH GEORGIA EXPEDITION. 45 
northward to the latitude of Berniuda and thence eastward 
across the Atlantic. This period was characteristic of the 
greater part of the voyage in that much time was consumed 
with very little opportunity for accomplishing anything of 
material value. I collected fishes on all possible occasions 
Init there were necessarih' davs and weeks of idleness. The 
one important practical result of the summer at sea is a 
series of photographs illustrating the methods of old-fashioned 
sperm whaling, a subject which I found abundant opportunity 
to studv both from the masthead and from the whale boats. 
In nil about twentv-six sperm whales were taken bv the crew. 
]t was not i)ractical)le to save even one whrde skull because of 
