. Scottish geographical magazine. the upper laboratory. Adjacent to thisis a compact and completely fitted dark-room for also will be found two great drums each containini:r GOOO SCOTTISH NATIONAL ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION. 541 fathoms of cable, each of which weighs six tons ; this cable is led up ondeck to a specially constructed forty horse-power steam winch, and fromthence over the side of the ship by means of a derrick for the purpose oftrawling and trapping in the greatest depths. The roof of the scientificdeckhouse and its extension in the form of a bridge forms a cent
. Scottish geographical magazine. the upper laboratory. Adjacent to thisis a compact and completely fitted dark-room for also will be found two great drums each containini:r GOOO SCOTTISH NATIONAL ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION. 541 fathoms of cable, each of which weighs six tons ; this cable is led up ondeck to a specially constructed forty horse-power steam winch, and fromthence over the side of the ship by means of a derrick for the purpose oftrawling and trapping in the greatest depths. The roof of the scientificdeckhouse and its extension in the form of a bridge forms a centre ofactivity for the scientists, for this is where all the operations connectedwith sounding and the physical investigation of the ocean take aft on the poop is to be found an important instrument, namely, thatwhich secures and hauls in, by a special motor engine, huge kites whichsuspend meteorological instruments at great heights in the machine, as well as all the hydrographical machines, can also be. Motor-engine for reeling in kites. driven by a special horse-power engine which is capable of hauling upinstruments from the depth of the sea at the rate of 80 to 100 fathomsper minute. The captain of the Scotia is Captain Thomas Kobertson, of Peterhead,who has had over twenty years experience in Arctic navigation, andwho, in addition, made a voyage ten years ago to the Antarctic he has been carrying on his work as a whaler, both in the northand in the south, he has found the time and shown the interest whichhas enabled him to make important geographical discoveries. He is inthe i)roud position of being able to say that in all his experience he hasnever lost a ship nor a man. The scientific staff consists of half a dozenpicked scientists; four senior, and two junior men. Mr. R. N. Rudmose- 542 SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL MAGAZINE. Brown is botanist. His chief Avork will be to investigate the smalloceanic plankton or those minute forms of anima
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