Journal of H.M.S. Challenger [by Assistant Paymaster John Hynes?] (116p.), 13 December 1873-17 March 1874

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Leaving Cape for Kerguelen Island; scientific purpose of voyage; trawls and dredges; Marion Island - flora and fauna - Keruelen's Land cabbage; Bligh's Cape; Island of Desolation - surveying and exploration, shooting; meeting with whaling ships; 'nearly all the officers in the Ship have islands, mountains and points called after them in this Sound [Royal] and the fellows in the Hydrographic Office will find when the chart goes home that they have not been forgotten. Hynes Rock is now a well marked danger and my name will be handed down to posterity…'; lists of birds, plants, fishes of Kerguelen; description of glaciers and icebergs; sailing to Australia; Prussian Fleet at Sandridge.

Press cutting re death of Hynes at end.

(Some blurred pages)

Reports of Captain Nares H.M.S. Challenger were not filmed by the AJCP.

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