SCOTT EXPEDITION RECALLED

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 74, 29 March 1922, Page 7

SCOTT EXPEDITION RECALLED

LECTURE BY MR, A. CHERRYGARRARD.

(PROM OUR OWN CORRjSSPONDBNT.)

LONDON, 17th February. Mr. Apsley Cherry-Garrard, who was assistant-zoologist in the Scott Antarctic Expedition, has been lecturing this,week on those thrilling days spent in the frozen seas from 1910 to 1913. Though often retold by numerous survivors of the party, the story still attracts an interested audience, and the pictures produced by the photographer, Mr. H. G. Ponting, a nd those coloured by Dr. Wilson, bring the public into very intimate touch with the members of the expedition, their Arctic surroundings, and the life they spent amongst the snow and ice.

Mr. Cherry-GaiT.ird, in addressing an audience at Whitechapel, covered a good deal of ground that is familiar to those who have i'o^d Scott's Diary, "The Great White South," and "South with Scott," but lie was able to relate a more personal story of the midwinter expedition to * Cape Crozier, which,- as Mr. Ponting writes in his book, "was one of the bravest adventares ever undertaken in the cause of science." The party consisted of Dr. Wilson, Lieutenant Bowers, and Mr. Oherry-Garrard, nnd- their object was to visit the nesting ground of the Emperor penguins, which, neat" in wid-winter.^ How they covered the journey in nineteen dflys through the wid-whiter gloom, with the temperature at 60 degrees below zero, and, -after several futile, attempts, came upon the nesting ground, procured their specimens, and accomplished the object o.f their quest,_ is at proud etory to tell,' a.nd one which is not ao familiar to the public as other episodes of the expedition. "I d-o not believe," said. Mr. CherryGarrard, "that, ally one but Dr. Wilson could have led puc!i an expedition as that. It wanted infinite patience, nnd Wilson had it. He took everything as it ' dime—tvever hasty, always* working, perfectly smoothly; 'i never saw anything like it in the wovld." The lecturer described the interesting ana Rimisiiie; huljits of the penguins, and concluded with the story of the dastt to the Pole, and the tragic ending of the great a&venturn.