Author: MOSELEY, H(enry) N(ottidge).
Title: Notes by a naturalist. An account of observations made during the voyage of H.M.S. 'Challenger' round the world in the years 1872-1876, under the command of G.S. Nares and F.T. Thomson. New revised edition .. with a brief memoir of the author.
Description: London, John Murray, 1892.Original cloth (sl. soiled). With portrait, folding map, and many woodengravings. XXIV,540 pp.First published in London in 1879. - The HMS Challenger was the first steam vessel to cross the Antarctic Circle (1874). Includes a general description of Tristan da Cunha, Marion Islands, Iles Crozet, Iles Kerguelen, Heard Island, Juan Fernandez, Magellan Strait and the Falkland Islands, Hawaii, Tahiti, Fiji & Cape York and Queensland, with numerous observations on natural history, especially birds. Conrad p.69; Headland 1039; Spence 820; Ferguson 12883b; Forbes III, 3267; O'Reilly & Reitman 1302.

Keywords: Antarctic Hawaii Islands Pacific Pole