Priestley, Sir Raymond Edward (1886-1974 )

Notes on animal, bird, plant, and insect life in the Antarctic. Made during the Shackleton Expedition, 1908, 1909, and the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1912. In typescript, with a few holograph additions and corrections. From the Lillie Collection, with pencil-markings by him against entries on whales and seals.

1908-1912

1 volume 18 ff. + 9 ff. + 5 ff. + 11 ff. + 7 ff. 4to. 251/2 × 20 cm. Unbound.

Purchased 1935.

The author was geologist to Scott's last expedition.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).