Extracts from the Reports of Capt. Nares. HMS Challenger.

£1,500 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

A handsome copy, presented by the Admiralty to the Royal United Service Institution. Early reports from the Challenger expedition, which ran from 1872-1876. Its primary purpose was charting the ocean and the ocean floor in order to build on many of the discoveries made by the likes of Darwin and Huxley. In charting the floor, much terrain that was conducive to the laying of telegraph cables was identified. Spry served as one of two engineers on the expedition. The three and a half year circumnavigation included visits to the West Indies, Nova Scotia, Bermuda, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Moluccas, Hong Kong, New Guinea, Japan, Hawaii and South America. The voyage’s scientific reports ran to 50 volumes and took nearly 20 years to complete. OCLC locates copies at Trinity College Dublin, University of Manchester, Kings College London, Cornell, UCSD, Smithsonian, Harvard, Munk Oceanographic, Lloyd Library, Leipzig, Gotha, and Tasmania. Not in Forbes.

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