WHALES.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19448, 23 October 1928, Page 8

WHALES.

HABITS AND-^ RESEARCH Ify T*H-|||j ™ ***"_£« WELLL\Srofr® In furtherance Discovery Antarctic Ocean,'D» * wOB M.R.C.S., L.R.cV SSI from London whaler, C. A. ton from San Pedro father forthcoming ngo the Discovert organised under M the British Museum, aJdr&fiSSl graphical Society .T- jyjfoMa expedition was to research into thewhales in the of their conditions affentlpS in those regions; was to bo devoted migratory passages of«gfi!S| study of their &jfgil the cruise of ings and surveys graphical work was WKVffiS A permanent marine tfi&nir 1 " lisned at G-rytvikea,-the headquarters .of try in the Atlantic Antarctic Ocean. " -tW s^r^issaS principal medical the Zoological Snrvw director of research aa5.'MsSS the staff of of the axneditinn... Discovers, a small ally built and fitted frpftagt the expedition. Thetitajliiß Scoresby, named captain, was providtf jriWjSgra to fire silver-plate^" coSMlffl bered darts 'ior' : whaling stationa the capture of mafl@ijil«fl locality, and animals! The DisodfoHfj&gra England in SenteiiiWsOM voyage of two 1 amount of materiajjawpfflffi able comparisons seasons. Dr. hump-back doubtedly diminisrnn^ : and fin whales appeared ant as ever. - >^lgj§B The tflafljaam Sea whalers, Sir C. A. Larsen. and MfelSffiMßH N. T. Nielson five years have 5500 to : 6000 whalea-.mS™B alone, and the working again this shall is going: to thßJflaSjam G. A. Larsen and-wfflatnßgßa of whales there ai 'mllpH signs of whales coveky ,^JB| It is interesting the second visit the Ross Sea tmMHg arctic. His brother was 'a member pedition, and in comnimfiMf|| ton, Adams, :and <: farthest within 150 miles