The work at South Georgia would have been impossible but for the kind assistance of the managers of the whaling companies: The De Pesca Company, of Buenos Aires The Southern Whaling Company (Lever Bros.) The Tönsberg Company, of Norway The Westfahl Company, of Norway The Salvesen Company, of Leith, Scotland The excellent surveying instruments which were so kindly lent by Messrs. Troughton and Simms proved invaluable under all conditions. Thanks are specially due to Mr. John Quiller Rowett, LL.D., without whose generous support the expedition would have been impossible. APPENDIX II NATURAL HISTORY Soon after leaving England numbers of landbirds were seen about the ship. In position lat. 43° 52´ S. and 11° 51´ W. long, we saw a heron passing overhead, steering in a S.S.E. direction towards the northern coast of Africa. After leaving Lisbon on the way to Madeira, numbers of robins, wrens, doves, larks and sparrows flew aboard in an exhausted condition. They were captured, measured and their colourings noted, afterwards given food and water, and allowed to go free. One dove that came near the ship was so exhausted that it fell several times into the sea, which was very choppy. We expected it to drown, but on each occasion it rose from the break of the wave and finally settled on the topsail yard, where it rested and dried itself, and finally set off with renewed vigour in the direction of land. Mother Carey’s Chickens joined us soon after our start, and we were rarely without them throughout the voyage. At St. Vincent we collected specimens of vultures, mostly black or dark brown, but some were white with black markings. A few crows, larks and other small birds were seen. A white owl was presented to the naturalist by one of the residents. The species is not common to the island, but is reported to have been seen after high winds blowing from the mainland. In latitude 60° 26´ N. we were surrounded by a particularly large school of porpoises, and secured one by harpooning it from the bowsprit. It was a male, 7 feet 7 inches in length, and the stomach contained the remains of 5 squids and 114 octopus beaks.