independent position, with the iiaAnl staff of a
man-of-war, has for once been successful. Captain
Nares and Captain Thomson both fully recognized
that the expedition was intended for scientific
purposes, and I do not think that in one single
case the operations of the combined scientific staff
Avere hampered in the least by avoidable service
routine. All the naval officers, without exception,
assisted the civilian staff in every way in their poAAmr
and in the most friendly spirit; if I wished anything
done I had only to consider Avho was the man, naval
or civilian, Avho Avas likely to do it best; and the consequence
has been that Avith the entire sanction of
Captain Nares and Captain Thomson, the parties
sent to camp out or detailed for any special service
have alAvays been mixed, to the great advantage I
believe of all concerned.
My thanks are perhaps more specially due to
Commander Maclear and the First Lieutenant for
the Avonderful temper with Avhich they tolerated all
the irregularities, some of them very trying to the
ministers of cleanliness and order, AAdiich Avere inseparable
from the peculiar nature of our imperium
in imperio; to Staff-Commander Tizard, the chief
of the naval scientific staff, for the friendly readiness
Avitli Avhich he has ahvays assisted us, and placed his
valuable observations and data at our disposal; and
to Lieutenant Aldrich, Lieutenant Bromley, Lieutenant
Bethell, and Lieutenant Carpenter, for the
patience and care with Avhich they superintended the
dredging and trawling operations, and the determinations
of ocean temperature, all of Avhich fell into
their immediate province. And here 1 must not
omit to record my deht of gratitude to my friends
the blue-jackets, who, greatly to their credit, treated
us civilians throughout with as much respect and
consideration as they did their owm officers.
The members of the Civilian Scientific Staff under
my direction have already in various Avays given
evidence of their industry; I think, however, I
should not be doing my duty if I did not take this
opportunity of recording my personal obligation to
Mr. John Murray, Avbo, Avhile he has been bringing
out highly important results by his own investigations,
has undertaken the task of cataloguing and
seeing to the security of the vast collections which
have accumulated during the voyage.
The friendly hospitality and the ready assistance
wdiich Ave everyAvhere received, not only from the
representatives of England and America, but also
from those of foreign nations, added much to
the pleasure of the cruise. Some few of these many
benefits will be acknowledged in their places in the
journal, but the names alone of the kind friends
Avho have come forward to wnlcome and aid us wnuld
fill a goodly volume.
I cannot, however, close without recording, on my
OAvn part and on that of the Civilian Scientific Staff,
our deep sense of the courteous consideration which
wn uniformly received from the Ilydrographer to
the Navy, the head of the department with which
wn Avere associated ; and our hearty thanks to Mr.