. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Botany. . Fig. 17 Robert Allen Dyer. Fig. 18 Nigel M. Wace. Wace, Nigel M. N. M. Wace (Fig. 18) was botanist to the Gough Island Scientific Survey of 1955-56. The expedition first landed on Tristan da Cunha, where they stayed from 1 October to 13 November 1955 and from whence they sailed in the Tristania (a 600-ton fishing vessel belonging to the Tristan da Cunha Development Company) to Gough Island. The expedition remained on Gough Island for six months from 14 November 1955 until they were taken off the South African naval frigate Transvaal
. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Botany. . Fig. 17 Robert Allen Dyer. Fig. 18 Nigel M. Wace. Wace, Nigel M. N. M. Wace (Fig. 18) was botanist to the Gough Island Scientific Survey of 1955-56. The expedition first landed on Tristan da Cunha, where they stayed from 1 October to 13 November 1955 and from whence they sailed in the Tristania (a 600-ton fishing vessel belonging to the Tristan da Cunha Development Company) to Gough Island. The expedition remained on Gough Island for six months from 14 November 1955 until they were taken off the South African naval frigate Transvaal on 13 May 1956, and returned then to Tristan da Cunha briefly before sailing for Cape Town. An account of the work of the entire expedition has been published by Holdgate (1958). Regarding the vascular plants collected during the expedition, two series were gathered: 94 numbers from Tristan da Cunha (each prefixed with the letter T) and 163 numbers from Gough Island (without prefix). The first set of all numbers is at BM. Wace visited the Tristan group again from March to May 1968 during which period he was able to make further collections on Tristan da Cunha (including many species colonizing the volcanic debris resulting from the eruption of 1961), and on Inaccessble, Nightingale and Gough Islands. A further expedition to these four major islands was made by him from November to December 1976. At the time of writing (1979) duplicates of only the grasses, sedges and rushes have so far been distributed from the 1968 and 1976 expedition, specimens of which have been lodged at Kew. Literature: Narrative: Holdgate (1958); Botanical: Wace & Holdgate (1958), Wace (1961). Wilkins, George Hubert G. H. Wilkins was appointed naturalist to the Shackleton-Rowett Antarctic Expedition of 1921-22. On returning from the Antarctic, the expedition's vessel, the SY Quest, visited several islands of the Tristan-Gough group: Tristan da Cunha (20 May 1922), Nightingale Island (21 May), Inaccess
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