Pages 11–28. The Arctic wintering of HMS Hecla and Fury in Prince Regent Inlet, 1824–25. The journal of William Mogg was discovered in the library of the University of Southampton by Dr L. E. Taverner who transcribed the part from which this extract was made and sent it to the Institute. It is regretted that due acknowledgement to Dr Taverner was inadvertently omitted.

Dr Taverner has published the following relevant papers:

George Thomas, Master, Royal Navy. The Mariner's Mirror, Vol 36, No 2, 1950, p 117–21.

William Mogg, 1796–1875, Explorer, Naturalist, Diarist, Nautical Magazine, Vol 170, 1953, p 141–44.

Notes on the Indians of Patagonia made by W. Mogg in 1829. Man, Vol 60, No 65,1955, p. 59–61.

New Light on the Adventure and Beagle Expedition 1826–36. Genius, Vol 13, No 1–4, 1956, p 4–27.

Page 452, line 1. For mazozoa read mezozoa.

Page 531, line 48. For 62 read 262.

Page 531, line 19. For fodder read pastures

The statement that “Terra Nova had been to the Arctic with the Jackson-Harmsworth expedition, 1894–97” is incorrect.

After Seismology add Meteorology.

For Turnball read Turnbull. For 2400 read 2500. line 40. For Ch Salversen read Chr Salvesen.

For M. J. Holdgate read M. W. Holdgate.