Search Results for: Botanical collections
, and responsible for collecting zoological and geological specimens. [ ] [ ] thomas abernethy , who had been on previous arctic expeditions with ross, was gunner . hooker later became one of england's greatest botanists; he was a close friend of charles darwin , and became director of the royal botanical
ice barrier", as it was called, continuing to follow it eastward. both ships stayed at port louis , in the falkland islands for the (antarctic) winter, leaving in september to explore the antarctic peninsula , where they conducted studies in magnetism , and returned with oceanographic data and collections...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_expedition