MOSELEY, H[enry] N.

Notes by a Naturalist on the "Challenger," Being an Account of Various

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MOSELEY, H[enry] N. Notes by a Naturalist on the "Challenger," Being an Account of Various Observations Made during the Voyage of H.M.S. "Challenger" Round the World, in the Years 1872-1876. London: Macmillan and Co., 1879. 1st ed. xvi,620pp. Colored lithographic frontis., illus., colored lithographic plate, folding map. Orig. cloth. Light rubbing to spine ends and corners, faint scattered foxing, else very good Moseley was chosen as naturalist for the scientific staff of the CHALLENGER during its circumnavigation of the oceans. "There being no botanist attached to the expedition, Mosely undertook the collection of plants, and wherever the expedition touched land his zeal as a collector led him always to remain on shore till the last moment, a habit which resulted in his nearly being left behind at Keguelen's Land [now known as Kerguelen, Island, in the southern Indian Ocean]" DNB.

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