Antarctica

Abstract

hooker’s “Antarctic Voyage”, as it is often and somewhat misleadingly called, was the first of his important botanical expeditions. A full outline account of it is given in L. Huxley: “Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker”, vol. 1, chapters II to VI inclusive (1918). The “voyage” consisted of three expeditions to the south with the two ships Erebus and Terror with breaks between in Tasmania, Sydney, and New Zealand and in the Falklands (with an excursion to Hermite Islands in Tierra del Fuego and west of Cape Horn). General details of the whole voyage are given in Captain Sir James Clarkross’s “A voyage of discovery and research in the Southern and Antarctic Regions”, two volumes, London, 1847. In this interesting and readable work there are various, acknowledged, botanical contributions by Hooker, who is introduced (p. 82) as “Dr. Hooker, the Assistant Surgeon of the Erebus”. The following are the references:

Kerguelen Island, 1: 83–7. Auckland Islands, 1: 144–8. Campbell Island, 1: 158–63. Fossil wood in Tasmania (Van Diemcn’s Land), 2: 5–11. Falkland Islands, 2: 261–77. Cockburn Island, 2: 335–42.