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Rh that the results have been worked up by the man who conducted the work in the field, and who remained in the Antarctic Regions for another year, in the service of the Argentine Republic, after the Scotia had sailed for home.

Mr. Mossman has, since the completion of the Meteorological Reports of the Scotia, rejoined the Meteorological Service of the Argentine Republic, and a special part of his work there is in connection with the working up of the results of the Scotia Bay Station, which that energetic South American Republic has continued to support and direct during the past six years. The results of this work are already being felt. Before the Scotia had left the Antarctic Seas, Mr. Mossman was able to demonstrate meteorologically the existence of the land reported by Johnson and Morrell, extending northward to about latitude 65° S. in longitude 44° W., where both Ross and Crozier reported an "appearance of land," and where Nordenskjold's people on board the Antarctic also had possible "appearance of land." Nordenskjold dismisses the idea of land here because an iceberg was actually mistaken for an island at one time, and because of the depth obtained, viz. 2,031 fathoms. But Nordenskjold, according to his chart, was at least 40 miles farther off the point where Ross and Crozier reported "appearance of land," "land blink," etc.