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MURRAY (GEORGE, EDITOR)
The Antarctic Manual for the Use of the Expedition of 1901... with a Preface by Sir Clements R. Markham... Presented to the Expedition and Issued by the Royal Geographical Society, FIRST EDITION, Royal Geographical Society, 1901

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MURRAY (GEORGE, EDITOR)

The Antarctic Manual for the Use of the Expedition of 1901... with a Preface by Sir Clements R. Markham... Presented to the Expedition and Issued by the Royal Geographical Society, FIRST EDITION, half-title, illustrations in the text, lacks the 3 folding maps, small loss to blank margin of pp.389/90, publisher's blue cloth, soiled [Spence 829; Taurus 39], 8vo, Royal Geographical Society, 1901

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A COPY WITH A DISTINGUISHED POLAR PROVENANCE, and probably taken to the Pole by the Chief Engineer of two expeditions there. The Antarctic Manual was conceived to distribute to members of the British National Antarctic Expedition, Clements Markham noting in the preface that "No polar vessel ever left these shores so well adapted and prepared as the Discovery, to secure the valuable scientific results that are hoped from the exertions of explorers; and I trust that one useful aid to our gallant friends when in the far South, will be Mr. George Murray's 'Antarctic Manual'". It also includes an extensive bibliography of earlier publications on the Antarctic.

This copy belonged to J.D. Morrison, chief engineer of the S.Y. Morning, which led the Antarctic Relief Expedition (1902-1904) to help Shackleton's ice-bound Discovery. Several passages in the chapter "Ice Observations" and the section on sea ice in the "Chemical and Physical Notes" chapter are marked up in blue pencil in the the margin, most likely by Morrison in advance of the voyage.

Provenance: John Donald Morrison (1873-1938), pencil inscription "J.D. Morrison, S.Y. Morning, Ant. Rel. Exp." on title; Henry Dunlop (1876-1931), Chief Engineer on the Nimrod; by descent to the present owner. It seems probable that the book was gifted by Morrison to Dunlop in advance of the Nimrod expedition, as the motor car firm Arrol-Johnson, for which Morrison was by then working as a director, was both a sponsor of the expedition and supplied it with the first vehicle designed for polar travel.

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