- MS 559/74;D Letter to Apsley Cherry-Garrard, 5 March 1913 [Including marginal notes on specimens form the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913 in Cherry-Garrard's hand] 1 leaf, autograph, typescript
Hamilton, correspondence
This material is held atScott Polar Research Institute Archives, University of Cambridge
- Reference
- GB 15 Augustus Hamilton/Correspondence
- Dates of Creation
- 5 March 1913
- Name of Creator
- Physical Description
- Letter and notes
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
The correspondence relates to emperor penguins. These are the largest of the penguins. Apsley Cherry-Garrard took part in a winter journey to the emperor penguin rookery at Cape Crozier during the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913 (leader Robert Falcon Scott). Along with Edward Wilson and Henry Bowers he collected specimens, which were brought back to England and deposited with the British Museum (Natural History department).
Bibliography
The journey to the Cape Crozier rookery is told in The worst journey in the world by Apsley Cherry-Garrard, first published in 1922.