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Description: | Possession Island, [near Cape Adare, Victoria Land], Antarctica unknown One of 14 specimens collected by CE Borchgrevink in January 1895 during the expedition which made the first scientific landing on continental Antarctica. He then went to Australia to try to raise money for a further expedition, and gave some of the specimens to T.W.E. David who described them. He subsequently gave them to J.W. Gregory, who brought them to Glasgow. A Gregory label with the suite says "13 [sic] sp. Antarctic Rocks Presd. Prof. David, Sydney"
There are two labels stuck onto this specimen. One is damaged, but says twice : "No. 11 Possession Island No. 11 Possession Island Coll. CE Borchgrevink", and the other (improvised from the margin of a sheet of stamps!) gives the same information yet again!
This specimen is probably cited in T.W.E. David's paper of 1895. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | IGPETGABBMICRO : ANTARCTIC EXPORATION : ROCK : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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