CAMBRIDGE ZOOLOGICAL EXPEDITION, 1933 An album of 13 photographs, approximately 11.9 x 16.4cm. and smaller, in a contemporary limp card album, 15 x 20.8cm. Provenance : a gift to David Lack from Hugh and Mary Hughes, Christmas 1933 (typed inscription inside upper cover). The photographs commprise: 'The Pourquoi Pas? in the pack-ice,' 'In Scoresby Sound,' 'Eskimos,' 'Our glorious landing in Hurry Inlet,' 'Characteristic view immediately behind Camp Musk Ox,' 'Sailing in Hurry Inlet,' Phalrope among the floes,' 'We leave Hurry Inlet,' 'We meet Polar Bears,' 'Iceberg,' 'Ice-cliff, three miles long, eighty feet high', and 'Farewell.' The Cambridge Zoological Expedition undertook to study land and fresh water life in East Greenland. Although the expedition was relatively short in duration, lest than a year, its contribution to the study of Arctic flora and fauna, and to entomology, and its reporting on the state of the Eskimo community at Scoresby Sound, made it one of the most successful of polar expeditions from a scientific standpoint. The expedition left Hull on July 4 in the Pourquoi Pas , under the command of Dr J.B. Charcot, arriving at Scoresby Sound on 1 August 1933. The parts gathering zoological information comprised G.C.L. Bertram, D.L. Lack, and B.R. Roberts, at Scoresby Sound, Hurry Inlet, and the West coast of Liverpool Land.
CAMBRIDGE ZOOLOGICAL EXPEDITION, 1933 An album of 13 photographs, approximately 11.9 x 16.4cm. and smaller, in a contemporary limp card album, 15 x 20.8cm. Provenance : a gift to David Lack from Hugh and Mary Hughes, Christmas 1933 (typed inscription inside upper cover). The photographs commprise: 'The Pourquoi Pas? in the pack-ice,' 'In Scoresby Sound,' 'Eskimos,' 'Our glorious landing in Hurry Inlet,' 'Characteristic view immediately behind Camp Musk Ox,' 'Sailing in Hurry Inlet,' Phalrope among the floes,' 'We leave Hurry Inlet,' 'We meet Polar Bears,' 'Iceberg,' 'Ice-cliff, three miles long, eighty feet high', and 'Farewell.' The Cambridge Zoological Expedition undertook to study land and fresh water life in East Greenland. Although the expedition was relatively short in duration, lest than a year, its contribution to the study of Arctic flora and fauna, and to entomology, and its reporting on the state of the Eskimo community at Scoresby Sound, made it one of the most successful of polar expeditions from a scientific standpoint. The expedition left Hull on July 4 in the Pourquoi Pas , under the command of Dr J.B. Charcot, arriving at Scoresby Sound on 1 August 1933. The parts gathering zoological information comprised G.C.L. Bertram, D.L. Lack, and B.R. Roberts, at Scoresby Sound, Hurry Inlet, and the West coast of Liverpool Land.
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