BORCHGREVINK EXPEDITION., LANKESTER, E. RAY, AND JEFFREY BELL, eds.

BORCHGREVINK EXPEDITION.
LANKESTER, E. RAY, AND JEFFREY BELL, eds. Report on the Collections of Natural History Made in the Antarctic Regions during the Voyage of the "Southern Cross." London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1902.
8vo. 53 plates (9 chromolithographed), photographic illustrations in the text. Publisher's blindstamped green cloth, gilt title on spine. Lightly rubbed, scattered foxing.
Provenance: British Museum (Presented by the Trustees of the British Museum bookplate on front paste-down).

FIRST EDITION. There are 22 chapters on the considerable collection of material brought back by the Southern Cross Expedition, including Edward A. Wilson on Antarctic seals. Appearing for the first time in print are extensive extracts from the diary of the zoologist Nicolai Hanson, tragically killed in 1899, "a great loss to the expedition, as it was to science generally, for, either from want of knowledge or want of care on the part of the survivors, his collections suffered considerably" (E.R. Lankester, preface). Rosove 46.A1; Spence 968.