- Discovery Investigations
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The Discovery Investigations were a series of scientific cruises and shore-based investigations into the biology of whales in the Southern Ocean. They were funded by the British Colonial Office and organised by the Discovery Committee in London, which was formed in 1918. They were intended to provide the scientific background to stock management of the commercial Antarctic whale fishery. The work of the Investigations contributed hugely to our knowledge of the whales, the krill they fed on, and the oceanography of their habitat. The investigations continued until 1951, with the final report being published in 1980.
Laboratory
Shore-based work on South Georgia took place in the marine laboratory, Discovery House, built in 1925 at King Edward Point and occupied until 1931. The scientists lived and worked in the building, travelling half a mile or so across King Edward Cove to the whaling station at Grytviken to work on whales as they were brought ashore by commercial whaling ships.
Ships
Vessels used were:
- RRS Discovery from 1924–1931
- RRS William Scoresby from 1927 to ??
- edit] Reports
Results of the investigations were printed in the Discovery Reports. This was a series of many small reports, published in 38 volumes by the Cambridge University Press, and latterly the Institute of Oceanographic Sciences. Many were printed as individual reports rather than in large volumes.
List of the Discovery Reports
Volume Pages/Plates/Charts
Title Author Published Volume I
List of Personnel pp 1 – 140
Plates I - VI
Station List 1925 - 1927 January 1929 pp 143 – 232
Plates VII - XVIII
Objects, Equipment and Methods S Kemp ScD
A C Hardy MA
N A Mackintosh ARCS MScJuly 1929 pp 235 – 255
Plates XIX - XXIV
The Natural History of the Elephant Seal
with Notes on Other Seals Found at South Georgia
L Harrison Matthews MA July 1929 pp 259 – 540
Plates XXV - XLIV
Southern Blue and Fin Whales N A Mackintosh ARCS MSc
J F G Wheeler MSc
December 1929 pp 543 – 560 Parasitic Nematoda and Acanthocephala Collected in 1925 - 1927 H A Bayliss MA DSc December 1929 pp 563 – 592
Plates XLV - LVI
The Birds of South Georgia L Harrison Matthews MA December 1929 Volume II
pp 3 – 222 Polychaete Worms C C A Monroe MA October 1930 pp 225 – 260
Plate I
Thoracic Cirripedes Collected in 1925-1927 C A Nilsson-Cantell, Sweden October 1930 pp 263 – 370
Plate II
Oceanic Fishes and Flatfishes Collected in 1925 - 1927 J R Norman October 1930 pp 373 – 402
Plates III - IV
Cephalopoda, I. Octopoda G C Robson MA November 1930 pp 405 – 434
Plate V
The Age of Fin Whales at Physical Maturity with a Note on Multiple Ovulations J F G Wheeler MSc January 1931 pp 437 – 482
Plates VI - VII
The Anatomy of a Marine Ostracod Cypridina (Doloria) Levis Skogsberg H Graham Cannon ScD February 1931 Volume III
List of Personnel January 1932 pp 3 – 132
Plates I - X
Station List 1927 - 1929 January 1931 pp 135 – 198
Plates XI - XXXI
The South Sandwich Islands
(With a report on Rock Specimens by GW Tyrrell ARCSc DSc FGS FRSE)
S Kemp ScD FRS
A L Nelson RNR
November 1931 pp 201 – 222
Plate XXXII
Nebaliacea H Graham Cannon ScD December 1931 pp 225 – 260
Plates XXXIII - XXXVIII
Cephalodiscus C C John MA December 1931 pp 263 – 268 Spiders Collected by the Discovery Expedition,
with a Description of a New Species from South Georgia
W S Bristowe BA FZS December 1931 pp 269 – 296
Plate XXXIX
Mollusca: Gasytropoda Thecosomata and Gymnosomata Anne L Massey March 1932 pp 299 – 344
Plates XL - XLIV
Charts 1 - 4Narrative of Hydrographic Survey Operations in South Georgia and the South Shetland Islands Lt Cdr J M Chaplin RN June 1932 Volume IV
pp 3 – 230
Plates I - IV
Station List 1929 - 1931 July 1932 pp 235 – 265 Oligochaeta. Part I. Microdrili (Mainly Enchytraeidae) J Stephenson CIE MB DSc FRS May 1932 pp 267 – 291 Oligochaeta. Part II. Earthworms Grace E Pickford PhD,
Osborn Zoological Laboratory, Yale UniversityMay 1932 pp 293 – 460v Plates VI - XVII
Foraminifera. Part I. The Ice-Free Area of the Falkland Islands and Adjacent Seas Edward Heron-Allen FRS
Arthur Earland FRMS
August 1932 Volume V
pp 3 – 326v Plate I
Amphipoda K H Barnard DSc FLS August 1932 pp 329 – 363 The Vascular Networks (Retia Mirabilia) of the Fin Whale (Balaenoptera physalus) F D Omanney ARCS BSc September 1932 pp 365 – 466
Plates II - III
The Uro-Genital System of the Fin Whale (Balaenoptera physalus) F D Omanney ARCS BSc September 1932 pp 469 – 484
Plate IV
Lobster-krill: Anomuran Crustacea that are the Food of Whales L Harrison Matthews MA November 1932 Volume VI
PP 1 – 138 Pycnogonida Isabella Gordon DSc PhD,
Assistant keeper in the Department of zoology, British Museum (Natural History)
December 1932 PP 139 – 164
Plates I - VI
Report on Penguin Embryos Collected During the Discovery Investigations C W Parsons BA,
Lecturer in zoology at the University of Glasgow
December 1932 PP 165 – 190
Plates VII - XLII
On the Distribution and Movements of Whales on the South Georgia and South Shetland Whaling Grounds Stanley Kemp ScD FRS
A G Bennett
December 1932 PP 191 – 204
Plates XLIII - XLIV
On the Development of Cephalodiscus C C John MA DSc DIC December 1932 PP 205 – 236
Plates XLV - XLVII
Charts 1 - 7Report on Soundings Taken During the Discovery Investigations 1926 - 1932 H F P Herdman MSc December 1932 PP 237 – 392
Plates XLVIII-LVII
Sponges Maurice Burton MSc,
Assistant-Keeper, Department of Zoology, British Museum (Nat. Hist.)
December 1932 Volume VII
pp 3 – 15 Fossil Forminifera from the Burdwood Bank and their Geological Significance W A Macfadyen MC MA PhD FGS February 1933 pp 17 – 27 Faecal Pellets from Marine Deposits Hilary B Moore BSc March 1933 pp 29 – 138
Plates 1 - VII
Foraminifera. Part II, South Georgia Arthur Earland FRMS June 1933 pp 139 – 170 On Vertical Circulation in the Ocean due to the Action of the Wind with Application to Conditions within the Antarctic Circumpolar Current H U Sverdrup November 1933 pp 173 – 238
Plates VIII - X
A General Account of the Hydrology of the South Atlantic Ocean G E R Deacon BSc November 1933 pp 241 – 252
Plates XI - XIII
Whaling in the Dominion of New Zealand F D Ommanney ARCS BSc December 1933 pp 255 – 362
Plate XIV
Isopod Crustacea. Part I, The Family Serolidae Edith M Sheppard MSc December 1933 pp 365 – 406
Plate XV
Some Aspects of Respiration in Blue and Fin Whales Alec H Laurie MA December 1933 Volume VIII
List of Personnel March 1934 pp 3 – 270 On the Phytoplankton of the South-West Atlantic and the Bellingshausen Sea T John Hart BSc January 1934 pp 271 – 318
Plates I - XIII
The Southern Sea Lion, Otaria byronia (De Blainville) J E Hamilton MSc January 1934 pp 321 – 330 On a New Species of Mite of the Family Halarachnidae from the Southern Sea Lion Susan Finnegan BSc PhD January 1934 pp 331 – 396 Plates XIV - XV
Scyphomedusae G Stiasny DSC, Leiden February 1934 Volume IX
pp 3 – 66 Hydrology of the Bransfield Strait A J Clowes MSc ARCS February 1934 pp 67 – 160 Distribution of the Macroplankton in the Atlantic Sector of the Antarctic N A Mackintosh DSc April 1934 pp 163 – 174
Plate I
The Sub-Antarctic Forms of the Great Skua (Catharacta skua skua) J E Hamilton MSc June 1934 pp 177 – 206
Plates II - XIV
The Marine Deposits of the Patagonian Shelf L Harrison Matthews MA August 1934 pp 209 – 216 The Development of Rhincalanus Robert Gurney September 1934 pp 217 – 294
Plates XV - XVI
Nemerteans from the South Atlantic and Southern Oceans J F G Wheeler DSc November 1934 pp 297 – 350
Plates XVI - XXII
The Sea Floor Deposits. I General Characteristics and Distribution E Neaverson DSc FGS December 1934 pp 351 – 372 On the Stock of Whales at South Georgia J FG Wheeler DSc December 1934 Volume X
pp 3 – 210
Plates I-X
Foraminifera, Part III. The Falklands Sector of the Antarctic (Excluding South Georgia) Arthur Earland FRMS December 1934 pp 211 – 248 The Falkland Species of the Crustacean Genus Munida G W Rayner BSc April 1935 pp 249 – 282
Plate XI
On the Diatoms of the Skin Film of Whales, and their Possible Bearing on Problems of Whale Movements T John Hart MSc June 1935 pp 285 – 382
Plates XII - XXV
The South Orkney Islands James W S Marr MA BSc November 1935 pp 383 – 390 Report on Rocks from the South Orkney Islands CE Tilley BSc PhD December 1935 Volume XI
pp 1 – 456 The Plankton of the South Georgia Whaling Grounds and Adjacent Waters A C Hardy MA
ER Gunther MA
November 1935 pp 457 – 510 The Continuous Plankton Recorder A C Hardy MA December 1936 pp 511 – 538 Observations on the Uneven Distribution of Oceanic Plankton A C Hardy MA November 1936 Volume XII
List of Personnel 1936 pp 1 – 58 Coast Fishes. Part I. The South Atlantic J R Norman December 1935 pp 59 – 198 Polychaete Worms C C A Monro MA January 1936 pp 199 – 348
Plates I - IX
Echinoidea and Ophiuroidea Th. Mortensen March 1936 pp 349 – 378
Plates X - XII
The Birds of the South Orkney Islands R A B Ardley RNR February 1936 pp 379 – 440 Larvae of Decapod Crustecea Robert Gurney DSc September 1936 Volume XIII
pp 1 – 76
Plates I - IIa
Foraminifera. Part IV, Additional Records from the Weddell Sea Sector from Material Obtained by the SY Scotia
With a report on Some Crystalline Components of the Weddell Sea Deposits. by FA Bannister MA
Robert Gurney DSc September 1936 pp 77 – 106 The Royal Research Ship Discovery II R A B Ardley RNR
N A Mackintosh DSc
July 1936 pp 277 – 384 Rhincalanus Gigas (Brady) A Copepod of the Southern Macroplankton F D Ommaney PHd ARCS October 1936 Volume XIV
pp 1 – 192 On the Development and Distribution of the Young Stages of Krill (Euphausia superba) F C Fraser BSc December 1936 pp 193 – 324
Plates I - V
The Southern Species of the genus Euphausia Helene E Bargmann PhD June 1937 pp 351 – 404 Larvae of Decapod Crustacea. Part IV. Hippolytidae Robert Gurney DSc June 1937 Volume XV
pp 1 –124 The Hydrology of the Southern Ocean G E R Deacon BSc March 1937 pp 125 – 152 Note on the Dynamics of the southern Ocean G E R Deacon March 1937 pp 153 – 222 New Species of Marine Mollusca from New Zealand A W B Powell March 1937 pp 223 – 284 The Age of Female Blue Whales and the Effect of Whaling on the Stock Alec H Laurie MA May 1937 Volume XVI
pp 1 – 150
Plates I - V
Coast Fishes. Part II. The Patagonian Region J R Norman February 1937 pp 151 – 364
Plates VI - XIII
The Plankton Diatoms of the Southern Seas N Ingram Hendey FLS FRMS April 1937 pp 365 – 412 The Seasonal Circulation of the Antarctic Macroplankton N A Mackintosh DSc April 1937 pp 413 – 446
Plate XIV
Rhizosolenia curvata Zacharias, an Indicator Species in the Southern Ocean T John Hart DSc May 1937 Volume XVII
pp 1 – 6
Plate I
On the Histological Structure of Cetacean Lungs F Haynes MA
Alec H Laurie MA
July 1937 ??? pp 291 – 344 Larvae of Decapod Crustecea. Part V. Nephropsidea and Thalassinidea Robert Gurney DSc July 1938 Volume XVIII
pp 1 – 104
Plate I
Coast Fishes. Part III. The Antarctic Zone J R Norman May 1938 pp105 – 120
Plate II
On the Operation of Large Plankton Nets James W S Marr MA BSc August 1938 pp 121 – 222
Plates III - VI
Crinoidea D Dilwyn John MSc October 1938 pp 223 – 238 Thoracic Cirripeded Collected in 1925 - 1936 C A Nilsson-Cantell, Sweden January 1939 pp 239 – 264
Plates VII - XIII
The Leopard Seal Hydrurga leptonyx (De Blainville) J E Hamilton MSc October 1939 pp 265 – 322
Plates XIV - XIX
Hydromedusae from the Falkland Islands Edward T Browne
PL Kramp
November 1939 pp 323 – 338
Plates XX - XXI
Madreporarian Corals, with an Account of Variation in Carophyllia J Stanley Gardiner MS FRS November 1939 Volume XIX
pp 1 – 120
Plates I - XXV
Phosphate and Silicate in the Southern Ocean A J Clowes MSc ARCS October 1938 pp 121 – 164
Plates XXVII - XXXIII
A Second Report on the Southern Sea Lion, Otaria Byronia (De Blainville) J E Hamilton MSc December 1939 pp 165 – 184
Plates XXXIV - XXXVIII
MacRobertson Land and Kemp Land, 1936
With a Report on Rock Specimens by CE Tilley FRS
George W Rayner May 1940 pp 185 – 244
Plates XXXIX - XLII
On the Anatomy of Gigantocypris Mulleri H Graham Cannon ScD FRCS July 1940 pp 245 – 284
Plates XLIII - LXVIII
Whale Marking, Progress and Results to December 1939 George W Rayner July 1940 pp 285 – 296
Plates LXIX - XCV
Distribution of the Pack Ice in the Southern Ocean N A Mackintosh DSc
HFP Herdman MSc
July 1940 Volume XX
pp 1 – 68 Larvae of Decapod Crustacea. Part VI. The Genuis Sergestes R Gurney and M V Lebour July 1940 pp 69 – 306
Plates I - XXIII
Asteroidea Walter K Fisher November 1940 pp 307 – 382
Plates XXIV - XXVI
On the Structure of the Photophores of some Decapod Crustacea Ralph Dennell DSc December 1940 Volume XXI
pp 1 – 226
Plates I - IV
Station List 1931 - 1933 February 1941 pp 227– 234
Plates V - VI
A Rare Porpoise of the South Atlantic, Phocana Dioptrica (Lahille, 1912) J E Hamilton DSc February 1941 pp 235 – 260
Plates VII - VIII
The Euchiuridae, Sipuncylidae and Priapulidae Collected by the Ships of the Discovery Committee During the Years 1926 to 1937 A C Stephen DSc October 1941 pp 261 – 356 Phytoplankton Periodicity in Antarctic Surface Waters T John Hart DSc October 1942 Volume XXII
pp 1 – 196
Plate I - IV
Station List 1933 - 1935 March 1942 pp 197 – 300 The Southern Stocks of Whalebone Whales N A Mackintosh DSc June 1942 pp 301 – 510
Plates V - XIII
Polyzoa (Bryozoa) I. Scrupocellariidae, Apistmiidae, Farciminariidae, Bicellariellidae, Aeteidae, Scrupariidae Anna B Hastings MA PhD
British Museum (Natural History)
September 1943 Volume XXIII
pp 1 – 18 The Gut of Nebaliacea Helen G Q Rowett October 1943 pp 19 – 36 On a Specimen of the Southern Bottlenosed Whale, Hyperoodon planifrons F C Fraser DSc March 1945 pp 37 – 102 Report on Rocks from West Antarctica and the Scotia Arc G W Tyrell ARCSc DSc FGS FRSE June 1945 pp 103 – 176 The Development and Life-History of Adolescent and Adult Krill, Euphausia superba Helene E Bargmann PhD June 1945 pp 177 – 212
Plates I - XIV
The Antarctic Convergence and the Distribution of Surface Temperatures in Antarctic Waters N A Mackintosh DSc January 1946 pp 213 – 222
Plate XV
Nebalipsis typica H Graham Cannon ScD FRS August 1946 pp 223 – 408
Plate XVI
Report on the Trawling Surveys on the Patagonian Continental Shelf
Compiled mainly from manuscripts left by the late ER Gunther MA
T John Hart DSc December 1946 Volume XXIV
pp 1 – 196
Plates I - III
Station List 1935 - 1937 November 1944 pp 197 – 422
Plates IV - VI
Station List 1937 - 1939 April 1947 Volume XXV
pp 1 – 30
Plates I - IV
Antarctic Pyrenocarp Lichens I Mackenzie Lamb DSc March 1948 pp 31 – 38
Plates V - XXII
Whale Marking II. Distribution of Blue, Fin and Humpback Whales Marked from 1932 to 1938 Georfga W Rayner May 1948 pp 39 – 106
Plates XXIII - XXXI
Soundings Taken During the Discovery Investigations, 1932–39 H F P Herdman MSc September 1948 pp 107 –112
Plate XXXII
On the Reproductive Organs of Holozoa Cylindrica Lesson Dr A Arnback Christie-Linde March 1949 pp 143 – 280
Plates XXXIV - XXXVII
Discovery Investigations Station List RRS William Scoresby 1931 - 1938 September 1949 pp 281 – 314
Plates XXXVIII - XLI
Ellobiopsidae Dr H Boschma FMLS CMZS November 1949 Volume XXVI
pp 1 – 32
Plate I
The Bathypelagic Angler Fish Ceratias holbolli Kroyer Robert Clarke MA September 1950 pp 33 – 46
Plates II - IV
Stylasteridae (Hydrocorals) from Southern Seas Prof. Hjalmar Broch
University of Oslo
January 1951 pp 47 – 196
Plates V - X
Antarctic and Subantarctic Mollusca: Pelecypoda and Gastropoda A W B Powell FRSNZ March 1951 pp 197 – 210 The Vampyromorpha of the Discovery Expeditions Grace E Pickford July 1952 pp 211 – 258
Plates XI - XII
Discovery Investigations Station List RRS William Scoresby 1950 April 1953 pp 259 – 280 A Preliminary Report on the Ostracoda of the Benguela Current E J Iles October 1953 pp 281 – 354
Plates XIII - XVIII
Open Boat Whaling in the Azores: The History and Present Methods of a Relic Industry Robert Clarke MA February 1954 pp 355 – 384 Dispersal in Blue and Fin Whales S G Brown January 1954 Volume XXVII
pp 1 – 162
Plates I - XII
Siphonophora of the Indian Ocean
Together with Systematic and Biological Notes on Related Specimens from Other Oceans
A K Totton
British Museum (Natural History)
April 1954 pp 163 – 200 The Pelagic Mollusca of the Benguela Current
Part I. First Survey RRS William Scoresby March 1950
With an Account of the Reproductive System and Sexual Succession of Limacina bulimoidesJ E Morton PhD August 1954 pp 201 – 208 The Circumpolar Continuity of Antarctic Plankton Species A de C Baker
National Institute of Oceanography
August 1954 pp 219 – 234 The Planktonic Decapod Crustacea and Stomatopoda of the Benguela Current
Part I. First Survey RRS William Scoresby March 1950
Marie V Lebour DSc October 1954 pp 235 – 278
Plate XIII
The Distribution of Sagitta gazella Ritter-Zahony P M David April 1955 pp 279 – 291 Cumacea of the Benguela Current N S Jones PhD
Marine Biological Station, Port Erin
June 1955 pp 293 – 302
Plates XIV - XVIII
The Wax Plug in the External Auditory Meatus of the Mysticeti P E Purves
Dept of Zoology, British Museum (Nat. Hist.)
July 1955 pp 337 – 376 Euphausiacea of the Benguela Current
First Survey, RRS William Scoresby, March 1950
Brian P Boden August 1955 pp 377 – 395
Plates XX - XXI
Cestodes of Whales and Dolphins from the Discovery Collections S Markowski September 1955 Volume XXVIII
pp 1 – 190 Mysidacea Olive S Tattersall DSc November 1955 pp 191 – 236 The Distribution of the Standing Crop of Zooplankton in the Southern Ocean P Foxton April 1956 pp 237 – 298
Plates I - II
Sperm Whales of the Azores Robert Clarke December 1956 pp 299 – 398
Plates III - V
Station List 1950 - 1951 November 1955 Volume XXIX
pp 1 – 128
Plates I - VII
Hydromedusae from the Discovery Collections P L Kramp February 1957 pp 129 – 140 New Observations on the Aberrant Medusa Tetraplatia volitans Busch Willam J Rees and Ernest White
British Museum (Natural History)
February 1957 pp 141 – 198
Plates VIII - IX
Isopod Crustacea Part II. The Sub-order Valvifera. Families: Idoteidae, Pseudidotheidae and Xenarctuidae Fam.N.
With a Supplement to Isopod Crustacea, Part I. The Family Serolidae
Edith M Shephard
Department of Zoology, Cardiff
September 1957 pp 199 – 228
Plates X
The Distribution of the Chaetognatha of the Southern Ocean P M David April 1958 pp 229 – 244 The Reliability of Deep-Sea Reversing Thermometers H F P Herdman and
L H Pemberton
May 1958 pp 245 – 280
Plates XI - XII
Octocorals Part I. Pennaturalarians Hjalmar Broch
The Zoological Laboratory, Oslo-Blindern, Norway
December 1958 pp 281 – 308
Plate XIII
The Foetal Growth Rates of Whales with Special Reference to the Fin Whale, Balaenoptera Physalus Linn. R M Laws
National Institute of Oceanography
March 1959 pp 309 – 340 The Distribution and Life History of Euphausia triacantha Holt and Tatersall A de C Baker April 1959 Volume XXX
pp 1 – 160
Plates I - VI
Ascidiacea R H Millar February 1960 pp 161 – 300 The Distribution of Pelagic Polychaetes in the South Atlantic Ocean Norman Tebble
British Museum (Natural History)
April 1960 pp 301 – 408
Plates VII - XXVIII
Studies on Physalia physalis (L.)
Part I. Natural History and Morphology
Part II. Behaviour and Histology
A K Totton
G O MackieAugust 1960 Volume XXXI
pp 1 – 122
Plates I - III
Swimbladder Structure of Deep-Sea Fishes in Relation to Their Systematics and Biology N B Marshall
British Museum (Natural History)
November 1960 pp 123 – 298 The Benguela Current T John Hart
Ronald I Currie
November 1960 pp 299 – 326 The Appendages of the Halocyprididae E J Iles
Dept. Zoology, Univ. of Manchester
February 1961 pp 327 – 486
Plates IV - VII
Reproduction, Growth and Age of Southern Fin Whales R M Laws November 1961 Volume XXXII
pp 1 – 32
Plates I - II
Salpa fusiformis Cuvier and Related Species P Foxton October 1961 33 - 464
Plate III
The Natural History and Geography of the Antarctic Krill (Euphausia superba Dana) James Marr November 1962 Volume XXXIII
pp 1 – 54
Charts 1 - 11
The Movements of Fin and Blue Whales within the Antarctic Zone S G Brown March 1962 pp 55 – 92
Plate I
Rhizocephala H Boschma
Rijksmuseum van Ntuurijke Historie, Leiden
November 1962 pp 93 – 250
Plates II - VII
Antarctic and Subantarctic Mollusca: Amphineura, Scaphopoda and Bivalva R K Dell
Dominion Museum, Wellington, New Zealand
November 1964 pp 251 – 307
Plates VIII - XXI
Larves de Cerianthaires E Leloup
Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique
November 1964 pp 309 – 334 The Latitudinal Distribution of Euphausia Species in the Surface Waters of the Indian Ocean A de C Baker
National Institute of Oceanography, Wormley, Godalming, Surrey
April 1965 pp 335 – 384
Plates XXII - XXVI
Development of the stolon in Salpa fusiformis Cuvier and Salpa aspera Chamisso R M Sawicki
Rothamstead Experimental Station
April 1966 Volume XXXIV
pp 1 – 116 The Distribution and Life-History of Salpa Thompsoni Foxton with Observations on a Related Species, Salpa Gerlachei Foxton P Foxton July 1966 pp 117 – 162 The Distribution and Life-History of Calanoides acutus (Giesbrecht) Keith J H Andrews September 1966 pp 163 – 198 The Distribution of Parathemisto Gaudichaudii (Guer), with Observations on its Life-History in the 0° - 20° E Sector of the Southern Ocean Jasmine E Kane October 1966 pp 199 – 394
Plates 1 - 17
Polyzoa (Bryozoa) - Ascophora - from North New Zealand Neil Andrew Powell
National Museum of Canada, Ottawa
September 1967 Volume XXXV
pp 1 – 30
Plates I - IV
Seasonal Formation of Laminae in the Ear Plug of the Fin Whale H S J Roe
Whale Research Unit,
National Institute of OceanographySeptember 1967 pp 31 – 134 Seasonal Cycles and Reproduction in Sei Whales of the Southern Hemisphere Ray Gambell
Whale Research Unit,
National Institute of OceanographySeptember 1968 pp 135 – 178 Spirorbis Species (Polychaeta: Serpulidae) From the South Atlantic Tegwyn Harris
Department of Zoology,
Exeter UniversitySeptember 1969 pp 179 – 198
Plates V - VI
On Ihlea Magalhanica (Apstein) (Tunicata: Salpidae) and Ihlea Racovitzai (Van Beneden) P Foxton
National Iistitute of Oceanography
January 1971 Volume XXXVI
pp 1 – 94 Life Cycle of Antarctic Krill in Relation to Ice and Water Conditions N A Mackintosh
Natural Environment Research Council
February 1972 pp 95 – 156
Plates I - XVII
Distribution of Post-Larval Krill in the Antarctic N A Mackintosh
Natural Environment Research Council
December 1973 pp 157 – 178 Sizes of Krill Eaten by Whales in the Antarctic N A Mackintosh
Natural Environment Research Council
April 1974 pp 179 – 266 Monogena and Digena from Fishes David I Gibson
British Museum (Natural History)
February 1976 Volume XXXVII
pp 1 – 324 Cephalopoda in the Diet of Sperm Whales of the Southern Hemisphere and their Bearing on Sperm Whale Biology Malcolm R Clarke
Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, Plymouth
March 1980 Books
The Discovery Investigations are described in the following books, all of which were out of print in 2008:
- Great Waters by Sir Alister Hardy - Collins, 1967
- South Latitude by F D Ommanney - Longmans, 1938
- Discovery II In The Antarctic by John Coleman-Cooke - Odhams, 1963
- A Camera in Antarctica by Alfred Saunders - Winchester Publications, London, 1950
External links
- Scanned copies of many of the reports are available at the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
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