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the recommendation of the Committee of the Royal
Society. I extract the list of officers from the Navy
List for April, 1873 :—
Captain
Commander.
Lieutenant ,
Navigating Lieutenant
Paymaster . . . .
S u rg e o n........................
Assistant-Paymaster .
Chief Engineer . .
Sub-Lieutenant
Navigating Sub-Lieutenant
Assistant-Surgeon . . .
E n g i n e e r........................
Boatswain, Second Class
Carpenter, Second Class .
Assistant Engineer, Second Class
George S. Nares.
J . F. L. P . Maclear.
Pelham Aldrich.
A r th u r C. B. Bromley.
George R. Bethell.
Thomas H . Tizard.
Richard R. A. Richards.
Alexander Crosbie.
Jo h n Hynes.
James H. Fergusson.
H e n ry C. Sloggett.
Lord George G. CampbeT.
Andrew F. Balfour.
A r th u r Channer.
A rth u r Havergall.
H e rb e rt Swire.
George Maclean,M.A.,M,B.
William J . J . Spry.
A lfred J . Allen.
Richard Cox.
F red e rick W. Westford.
W illiam A. H ew lett.
William J . Abbott.
C iv i l ia n S c i e n t i f i c S t a f f .
Professor C. Wyville Thomson, F.R.S.
J . Y. Buchanan, M.A.
H. N. Moseley, M.A.
Jo h n Mun-ay, Esq.
Dr. von Willemoes-Suhm.
J . J . Wild, Esq.
Only one change has taken place during the first
year; Suh-Lieut. Sloggett has returned to England
and has heen replaced by Suh-Lieut. Henry C. E.
Harston. , . -
The particular huild of tlie ‘ Oliallenger gives her
an immense advantage tor her present purpose, as she
has all the accommodation of a frigate with the handiness
and draught of water of a corvette. Sixteen ol
the eighteen large guns have heen removed and the
main-deck is almost entirely set aside for the scientific
work. The after-cabin is divided into two by a
bulkhead, and the two very comfortable little rooms
which are thus formed are occupied hy Captain Nares
and myself. The fore-cabin, a handsome room
30 feet long hy about 12 wide into which these
private cabins open, runs athwart-ships, and is
lighted by a large port at either end and two cupola
skv-lights. The Captain and I use this as a sitting-
r o U , the port end with writing-table and work-table
and hook-cases packed with old home favourites,
being appropriated to my use and that of my secretary
Mr. IVild, to whose facile pencil we are indebted
for beautiful illustrations of our novelties, and who
sits with me gathering in the various threads, which
we combine into a symmetrical web as best we may
Two sets of cabins have heen specially built on the
after part of the main-deck for the different depaiT-
ments of the scientific work. The ehart-room, the
head-quarters of the naval scientific «taff ^
commodious apartment on the starboard side witli
ran-es of shelves stocked with charts and hydro-
graphic, magnetic, and meteorological instrumen^
All the work in these departments, as well as the
whole of the practical operations in dredging, sounc-
ing, and taking hottom and serial temperatures, is