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194 his colleague, Professor Samuel Hunter Christie, of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.

Cape Wheatstone was named after Professor Wheatstone, the inventor of the electric telegraph; and Cape Daniell after my much-lamented friend the late Professor of Chemistry of King's College, and Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society.

Mount Peacock, Mount Whewell, Mount Lloyd, and Mount Robinson were named in compliment to the Very Reverend Dr. George Peacock, Dean of Ely; the Reverend Dr. William Whewell, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge; the Reverend Dr. Humphry Lloyd, of Trinity College, Dublin; and the Reverend Dr. Robinson, of Armagh; the more zealous and active promoters of magnetic research in the antarctic regions, and who, together with Sir John Herschel and Colonel Sabine, constitute a Committee of the British Association for the purpose of conducting the magnetical and meteorological co-operation, and for the reduction of meteorological observations.

Contending with a strong southerly breeze, we beat to windward close along the chain of islets which extends about ten miles to the southward of Possession Island. It consists of eight dark-coloured rocks of small size and curious shapes: an arched perforation was observed in one of them, through which the coast of the main land was seen; another was considered to resemble a ship's capstan.