SCOTCH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION.
Tho Scottish National Antarctic Association, under tho leadership of William S. Bruce, Director of tho Laboratory of Marine Zoology, Edinburgh, had complotod arrangements to sail for tho Antarctic regions on tho auxiliary screw steamer bcotia early this mouth. Tiio ship is splendidly equipped, and has several novel features, including an apparatus for taking views from kites, moving picture machines for obtaining records of tho movements of South Soa organisms, and 6000 fathoms of cable, with the object of sounding the ocean where Sir James Ross fuiled to find bottom with 4000 fathoms. Mr Bruco sailed as naturalist with tho Dundeo expedition to tho Antarctic regions in 1892, and since 1896 he has made four voyages to the Arctic regions, tailing part in tho Jackson-Harmsworth polar expedition and the Princo of Monaco’s expedition to Spiizbergen.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 562, 4 November 1902, Page 3
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