. A history of British mammals . 2 Krzn^ Yn^J-^^Jjc /^/» EDWARD ADRIAN WILSON AN APPRECIATION WHILE the whole civiHsed world mourns for the gallantmen who perished during the British AntarcticExpedition, the author and publishers of A Historyof British Mammals especially feel the loss of one who wasnot the least heroic participator in that glorious misadventure,Dr Edward Adrian Wilson, our artist. • - - ? Encircled as his name is by the halo of a rareachievement,he represents to those who did not know him personally, some-thing removed above the humdrum existence of ordinary us he was a
. A history of British mammals . 2 Krzn^ Yn^J-^^Jjc /^/» EDWARD ADRIAN WILSON AN APPRECIATION WHILE the whole civiHsed world mourns for the gallantmen who perished during the British AntarcticExpedition, the author and publishers of A Historyof British Mammals especially feel the loss of one who wasnot the least heroic participator in that glorious misadventure,Dr Edward Adrian Wilson, our artist. • - - ? Encircled as his name is by the halo of a rareachievement,he represents to those who did not know him personally, some-thing removed above the humdrum existence of ordinary us he was a comrade, workmate, warm-hearted friend of veryvisible and entirely human flesh and blood. On the return of Captain Scotts first Antarctic Expeditionin the Discovery in 1904, Wilson, hitherto practically unknowneither as artist or zoologist, attracted much attention by hismarvellous rendering of Antarctic scenery and animal pictures of the seals and penguins brought those, at thattime almost apocryphal creatures, bhistoryofbritish23barr
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