The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-02-11
SCOTT EXPEDITION
FINELY EQUIPPED
MoTER sIEDGEs, MOVING PICTURE
APPARATUS AND SCIENTIFIC
INSTRUMENTS IN OUTFIT.
GREAT BAND OF MEN
HEnoISN or IT. EVANS Is RE
LATED AND WORK or 1T.
PENNELL SHOWS ms SKILL
AND DARING.


NEW YORK. Feb. Io.-The. mem
hers Of Captain ScotJs expedition,
twenty~eieht naval 6f1lcers and scien-
fists. and a crew of 'twenty-three men,
represented the very highest type
Of efficiency in their respective lines.
when Scott announced that he was
to Try for the pole he received more
than seven thousand letters from
FnClishmen eager TO go south with
him. He chose his men carefully.
The heroism Of Lieutenant r, F..
Evans. Scott's secretary, and with
Pencil his right-hand man, ls typi-
cal of tA+--aert 81 stuff that the rest
Of the explorers we're made OF.
Evans was put in command of the
discovery by Scott on September
f Is. 1909 on June !. 1910, he was
transferred to the Terra Nova. as
second In command, and the day she
sailed he declared that he was
member Of the best equipped expedt-
! ton that ever set out on polar
search
ON January 4, 1911, he was a mem
Der Of the last supporting party that
said goodbye To those who pressed
on southwark and turned north at
latitude 81 degrees, 35 minutes.
Evans party had the motor sledges
and several of these broke down The
strenuous labor and the lack of fresh
food so weakened the lieutenant that
he developed scurvy. To make mat
ters worse bowling Antarctic storm
descended upon the three
He Does His Part.
Evans became rapidly worse, but
he insisted on doing his part.
They were making eighteen miles
day when the blizzard struck them,
and they decided to strike off for
Mount Darwin. This was on Jan
uary 9Th and the next day Evans fell
and did not rise tsashlcy aP! Green
put him in his sleeping bag ana
pulled him on a sledge for four ter
rble days There was "A conference,
aud Green set out at once for DiscoV-
cry Hut. where DIR, Atkinson and
/ Llmitri were waiting. He marched
for eighteen hours. while Lashley
worked heroically over Evans there
in the desolate regions. by his care
ful nursing he managed to Keep the
lieutenant alive until Green came
back with the physician and fresh
food They had driven their dogs I'M
40 the sturdy animals could hardly
stand, bat they had saved the lieu
tenants life.
DR.. Atkinson got Evans back in four
DAYS. After convaiesCing he was
rest. and went back To London to
attend to some business for the ex-
petition He went back south again
in time to make the relief voyage on
the Terra Nova,
Story of pennen.
IL was through the lips of Lieuten-
ant II l.. Pennell. in charge of the
magnetic and meteorological work
that the world first heard the story
Of Captain Scott's unsuccessful VEN
-.tire He came into the harbor of
Akaroa, n. T., on the first of April
1912. aboard the Terra Nova with
Captain SCOTS story. 1t was PEN
neIl's task to remain with the snip,
and resurvey any land that might be
seen, keep careful meteoroioeICai
record and make magnetic obserVa-
tons Lieutenant II. Il. Bowers, of
the Royal Indian marines, was his as
sisfant, and they had both seen ser
vice in the Antarctic.
There lis no doubt in my mind
To care for the health of the men
went DR.. f. A. Wilson, chief of the
scientific staff, who had been physi~
sian 10 SCOTS party on the discovery
expedition. DIR. Wilson was also zoolo-
gist and artist no means ability.
II. G. Pointing then photographer
of the western party, got pictoricai
record of the hardships and adven-
lures Oh the ENDtulltOiIs httd W iaA hiLS+
that is in the great white disolauon.
He got a remarkable batch of photo
graphic matter and when Pennell got
back to Akaroa he announced that
- Pointing had covered Elsss after Tim
OF moving picture reels
Biologists With Expedition.
There were three biologists with the
expedition, one to go with the western
party one with the eastern, and a
third on rowing commission to eX-
piore Victoria Land near the western
station. T. Griffith Taylor was an
Australian, and was scholar of 1851.
at Cambridge. The expedition picked
up w. c. Thompson, geologist of the
western party, in New Zealand, his
birthplace. He was a Rhodes scholar.
The third was chosen by Professor
David, of sydney University
T.. w Nelson and q. Il. Lille We're
the biologists of the party. The for
mer came from the Plymouth B!olo-
gical Laboratory, and went with the
Fauna in their depths. Lille remain
ed with the ship. DIR. q. simpson, Il
member Of the Meteorological depart
ment Of India, converSant with all the
latest methods OF exploring the upper
air currents, and investigating the
electrical conditions of the atmosphere
studied ths archaeological rptennEn ena
in con junction with Pennell. special
hut and space for large utfit of
scientific instruments were aNpteu 70
him.
c. s. Wright. chemist or the western
party. studied the ice structur" and
ice formations. He was a native OF
Toronto. and a scholar of Ca'us Col
leRe. Cambridge.
DR. q. NJ. LeviCl1, Il. N, zoologist
and physician, added to his duties
those OF botanist and photo grupher.
He was assisted in his work by Dir.
Atkinson who saved Lieutenant Evans
life when he WAS suffering from
sCurvy. He was especially trained in
the delicate scientific work Of bacteria
lOgy and parasitology. and his labvrs
Included studies in these sciences.
OF the crew, r. Evans Garad Grant,
Feather. Cheatham, Lashley, Cream.
Williamson Snythe, Paton and Head,
had had previous Antarctic experience
under Captain Scott.