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BY the issue of the handsome and beautifully illustrated volume standing first on our list, the Trustees of the British Museum have followed the lead set a couple of years ago by the appearance of the “Monograph of Christmas Island” and have thus added a second work describing the fauna of a definite area to the long list of publications bearing their name on the title-page. And there can be little doubt that this new departure will be welcomed by naturalists and by the public at large. In the present instance it has afforded a means of commemorating in a graceful and fitting manner the munificence and generosity of the originator of the Southern Cross expedition, and has likewise furnished zoological science with a valuable memoir on the fauna, flora and petrology of the Antarctic. How valuable such a publication is at the present time needs no comment here; and it will accordingly suffice to say that with the “Antarctic Manual” and the present volume the scientific staff of the Discovery will, on their return, have an excellent basis for the commencement of their work.
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L., R. A Quartette of Museum Publications 1 . Nature 66, 322–324 (1902). https://doi.org/10.1038/066322a0
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