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List of Maps and Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and Symbols
Weights, Measurements and Currency
INTRODUCTION: HENRY WEMYSS FEILDEN, THE NATURALIST IN HMS ALERT, 1875−6
1. Prelude and Preparation
2. Henry Wemyss Feilden
3. Instructions for the Expedition
4. Outward Bound
5. Winter Quarters
6. Sledging in Earnest
7. Out of the Ice and Homeward Bound
8. Home again: Science, Politics and the Military
9. Geology and Specimens
10. Palaeobotany
11. Zoology
12. Coda
EDITORIAL PRACTICE.
THE ARCTIC JOURNAL OF CAPTAIN HENRY WEMYSS FEILDEN, RA.
Prelude. 1 February−15 April 1875.
Part I. Outward Bound. 20 May–1 September 1875.
Part II. Winter Quarters. 2 September 1875−1 April 1876.
Part III. Sledging in Earnest. 2 April−9 June 1876.
Part IV. Sledging, Natural History, and Scurvy. 11 June−25 July 1876.
Part V. Out of the Ice and Homeward Bound. 26 July−28 October 1876.
Part VI. Science, Politics, and the Military. 29 October 1876−7 January 1787.
APPENDICES
Appendix A. Letters from Henry Chichester Hart, naturalist in HMS Discovery, to Feilden, received by Feilden in HMS Alert, and inserted by him in his journal.
Appendix B. Letter from Richard W. Coppinger, surgeon in HMS Discovery, to Feilden, Repulse Bay.
Appendix C. Chorus: ʻThe Palaeocrystic Seaʼ.
Appendix D. Flora and Fauna in Feildenʼs Journal.
Appendix E. List of enclosures in Feilden’s journal at the Royal Geographical Society
Appendix F. H.M.S. ALERT. Winter Routine.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
About the author
Trevor Levere taught for many years in the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Toronto, where he was twice Director. There he supervised 22 PhD students, beginning in 1968, and ending with the graduation of his final PhD student in 2018. He is now University Professor Emeritus, a Fellow of Victoria College, and a Senior Fellow of Massey College. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, membre effectif de l’Académie Internationale d’Histoire des Sciences (Paris), a Foreign Member of the Koningklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen (Haarlem, NL), and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. His first degree was in chemistry, which he studied at New College, Oxford, but he soon moved to the history of chemistry. Although he constantly returns to that field, he has worked in several other areas of the history of science in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Arctic science and science in Canada among them: his numerous books include Science and the Canadian Arctic: A Century of Exploration 1818–1918 (Cambridge, 1993), for which the first stages of research were carried out at the Scott Polar Research Institute and at Clare Hall in Cambridge. He and his wife Jennifer live in Toronto, and also, in July and August, on Garden Island in Lake Ontario, in a summer home which is just big enough to house the three generations of their Canadian family.
Summary
The British Arctic Expedition of 1875–6 was the first major British naval expedition to the high Arctic where science was almost as important as geographical exploration
