Douglas Mawson Book List 1911-14

Another two-page typed list was prepared for the Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911-14 of which Mawson was the leader; some of those physical books are shown in the Jacka edition of the diaries, the 7th plate following p. 62, depicting Winter Quarters at Cape Denison. The diaries, originally held by the Mawson Institute of Antarctic Research at the University of Adelaide are now a part of the South Australian Museum. . I am most grateful to Mark Pharoah of the South Australian Museum in Adelaide for help in providing copies of the original lists.

For this later expedition, there are four lists, each of which is divided into the owners or sources of the books who are indicated in the right hand column as follows:

In the following transcripts of this list, the original text appears in boldface, followed by imprints for the likely editions, transferred from the international data bases of RLIN, WorldCat, or COPAC. In trying to identify probable editions included we have favored the British editions most likely available in Australia, and editions closest in time to the outset of the expedition. Some editions cannot be identified (e.g. the Koran or “several scientific pamphlets”) and are so noted. Some physical volumes are still extant and where known that has been indicated as well.

D.M. Dr. Douglas Mawson: leader
Mackellar. Library. Charles Mackellar was an English financier who donated a “small” library to the expedition, some of which survive in Adelaide.
Bage Lieut. Robert Bage: astronomer, assistant magnetician and recorder of tides
Stillwell Frank L. Stillwell: geologist
Hodgeman Alfred J. Hodgeman: cartographer and sketch artist
Capt. Davis John K. Davis: master of SY Aurora and second in command of the expedition.

Philip Ayres biography of Mawson: Mawson: A Life. (Melbourne, Aus.: The Miegunyah Press, 1999), describes the library as follows: “The AAE’s [Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-14] library was almost equally provided by Campbell Mackellar and Mawson himself. The books from Mackellar included literature of Arctic and Antarctic travel, scientific textbooks and general literature. Mawson’s contributions included, besides popular volumes of Antarctic literature like Shackleton’s Heart of the Antarctic and H. R. Mill’s Siege of the South Pole, volumes of scientific results from Scott’s 1900-04 Discovery expedition, W. S. Bruce’s 1902 Scotia expedition, the BAE, Otto Nordenskjöld’s 1901-3 Antarctic expedition, and Jean Charcot’s first, 1903-5, expedition. He also supplied volumes of popular poets like Rudyard Kipling and Robert Service, anthologies, and other items including the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (which reflect Mawson’s austere and stoic credo, above any particular religion). Interestingly, he took German Self-Taught, a recognition of Germany’s superiority in many scientific and technological fields.” p. 52: [footnote 38 notes that “the AAE’s library is itemized in MAC, 43 AAE,” referring to the Mawson Antarctic Collection, Waite Campus, University of Adelaide.]

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BOOKS
D.M.1. [Douglas Mawson]

Tasmanian Mining Report –1908
Tasmania. Supreme Court. The Tasmanian Law Reports: Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of Tasmania. 35 volumes. Hobart, Tas.: The Tasmanian News Proprietary, 1905-1940.
[These reports include reports of the Tasmanian Mining Board, although it is difficult to determine what book is indicated in this list.]

Trigonometry –LOCK } D.M.
Lock, John Bascombe. A Treatise on Elementary Trigonometry and Higher Trigonometry. Two volumes in one. London: Macmillan, 1906.

Life in the Antarctic } D.M.
Life in the Antarctic. Sixty Photographs by Members of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition. London: Gowans & Gray, 1907.

Antarctic Manual } D.M.
The Antarctic Manual for the Use of the Expedition of 1901. Edited by George Murray…and issued by the Royal Geographical Society. London: Royal Geographical Society, 1901.

Siege of the South Pole } D.M.
Mill, Hugh Robert. The Siege of the South Pole: The Story of Antarctic Exploration. London: A Rivers, 1905.

Characteristics of existing glaciers } D.M.
Hobbes, William Herbert. Characteristics of Existing Glaciers. New York: Macmillan, 1911.

The Heart of the Antarctic } D.M.?
Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir. The Heart of the Antarctic, Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909. Two volumes. London: W. Heinemann, 1909.

Petrology for Students } Mackellar. Library
Harker, Alfred. Petrology for Students. Fifth ed. Cambridge, UK: The University Press, 1919.
Earlier editions included the 3rd in 1902 and the 4th in 1908.

Conquering the Arctic Ice } Mackellar. Library
Mikkelsen, Ejnar. Conquering the Arctic Ice. London: W. Heinemann, 1909.
This copy is in the Mackellar Library of the South Australian Museum (call # 919.8 .M631)]

The Cruise of the Antarctic } Mackellar. Library
Bull, H. J. The Cruise of the ‘Antarctic’ to the South Polar Regions. London: Edward Arnold, 1896.

The Toll of the Arctic Seas } Mackellar. Library
Edwards, Deltus Malin. The Toll of the Arctic Seas. London: Chapman, 1910.

Through the First Antarctic Night } Mackellar. Library
Cook, Frederick Albert. Through the First Antarctic Night, 1898-1899: A Narrative of the Voyage of the “Belgica”…. New York: Doubleday, Page, 1909

Hydrographic Surveying } Mackellar. Library
Lea, Samuel Hill. Hydrographic Surveying. New York: The Engineering News Publishing Co., 1905.
[This is one of several possibilities, none of which can be pinned down.]

Nuttall } Mackellar. Library
Nuttall, P. Austin. The Nuttall Encyclopaedia, Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge…. 40th Thousand. London: F. Warne and Co., 1901.
[Nuttall published a number of reference works in the early part of the century, of which this might be considered the most useful for the expedition.]

Expedition Accounts: The following are classic accounts of a number of individual expeditions, recognizing that these may not be the actual editions of the books referred to.

Voyage of the Challenger } Mackellar. Library
Spry, William James Joseph. The Cruise of Her Majesty’s Ship “Challenger”…. 14th Edition. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, n.d.
[This copy is in the Mackellar Library of the South Australian Museum (call # 910.4 .S77.14).]

Voyage round the World – Anson } Mackellar. Library
Anson, George Anson, Baron. A Voyage Around the World in the Years, 1740-4. London: J.M. Dent, 1911.
[This is one possible edition contemporaneous with the Mawson expedition. This copy is in the Mackellar Library at the South Australian Museum (call # 910.4 .A82 v.3)]

The voyage of the SCOTIA } Bage Brown, Robert Neal Rudmose. The Voyage of the “Scotia”: Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration in Antarctic Seas. Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1906.
[Scientific reports from the Scotia expedition were in progress at the time of these lists. See list 2 below. ]

Fighting the Polar Ice } Bage
Fiala, Anthony. Fighting the Polar Ice. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1907.

Voyage of the DISCOVERY – 2 vols. } Bage
Scott, Robert Falcon. The Voyage of the ‘Discovery’. Two volumes. London: John Murray, 1905.

Polar Exploration – Bruce } Stillwell
Bruce. William Speirs. Polar Exploration. London: Williams & Norgate, 1911?

Descriptive Meteorology } Hodgeman
Moore, Willis Luther. Descriptive Meteorology. New York: Appleton and Co., 1911.

Hints on the Legal Duties of Shipmasters } Capt Davis
Ginsburg, Benedict William. Hints on the Legal Duties of Shipmasters. Third edition. London: Charles Griffin, 1911.

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D.M.2.
The following six entries describing past expeditionary experience are difficult to interpret bibliographically, i.e. what actual publications are represented, and whether the subheadings listed are merely subject headings, or represent individual volumes that may be subsections of larger works. The list does reflect the fairly extensive coverage of past polar experience available to this expedition (cf. Scott’s complaint that he had insufficient materials of polar exploration).

B.A.E. Scientific Results – 1908 } D.M.

Asteroids, Ophuroids and echnoids –Mollusca—Mallocophaga – Fish – Freshwater Rhizopods – Tardigrada –Rotifera –Musci – Microscopic Life at Cape Royds –On collecting at Cape Royds.
British Antarctic Expedition (1907-1909). Reports on the Scientific Investigations. Biology. Two volumes. Edited by James Murray. London: W. Heinemann, 1910-11.
Vol. I, [pt.] I. On collecting at Cape Royds / by J. Murray — [pt.] II. On microscopic life in Cape Royds / by J. Murray — [pt.] III. Antarctic Rotifera / by J. Murray — [pt.] IV. Musci / by J. Cardot — [pt.] V. Tardigrada / by J. Murray — [pt.] VI. Rhizopodes d’eau douce / by E. Penard — [pt.] VII. Fresh water Algae / by W. West and G.S. West — Vol. II, [pt.] I. Mollusca / by C. Hedley — [pt.] II. Antarctic fishes / by E.R. Waite — [pt.] III. Mallophages / by L.G. Neumann — [pt.] IV. Asteries, ophiures, et echinides / by R. Koehler.

SCOTIA Expedition } D.M.Meteorology – Magnetics –Tides – Invertebrates – Zoological Log.—Meteorology of the Weddel Quad
Scottish National Antarctic Expedition (1902-04). Report of the Scientific Results of S.Y. “Scotia” during the Years 1901, 1903, and 1904, under the Leadership of William S. Bruce. Edinburgh: The Scottish Oceanographical Laboratory, 1907-

Swedish Antarctic Expedition } D.M.

Meteorology 2 vols. – Climate a function of temperature and wind – Geology of the Falkland Isles.
Nordenskjöld, Otto. Antarctica, or Two Year Amongst the Ice of the South Pole. By N. Otto G. Nordenskjold and Joh. Gunnar Andersson. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1905
I have been unable to identify additional volumes which this entry may represent.

Discovery Expedition } D.M.

Atlas of charts – Album of photographs –Geology

Magnetics
Scott, Robert Falcon. The Voyage of the ‘Discovery’. First Edition. Two volumes. London: John Murray, 1905.

Francaise Expedition } D.M.

Phys.Geog.- Geol. – Glaciology
Charcot, Jean Baptiste Auguste Etienne. The voyage of the ‘Why not?’ in the Antarctic : the journal of the second French South Polar Expedition, 1908-1910. English version by Philip Walsh. London; New York: Hodder and Stoughton, [1911?]

Southern Cross Contributions } D.M.
British Museum (Natural History). Report on the Collections of Natural; History Made in the Antarctic Regions during the Voyage of; the “Southern Cross”. London: British Museum, 1902.
Contents: Mammalia, by Capt. G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton.–Notes on Antarctic seals, by Edward A. Wilson.–Extracts from the private ‘diary’ of the late Nicolai Hanson.–Aves, by R. Bowdler Sharpe.–Pisces, by G. A. Boulenger.–Tunicata, by W. A. Herdman.–Mollusca, by Edgar A. Smith.–Echinoderma, by F. Jeffrey Bell.–Insecta: Collembola, by Geo. H. Carpenter. Pediculidæ, by the Hon. N. C. Rothschild.–Arachnida: Acarina, by Dr. E. L. Trouessart.–Crustacea, by T. V. Hodgson.–Polychaeta, by Arthur Willey.–Gephyrea, by A. E. Shipley.–Nematoda, by Dr von Linstow.–Cestoda, by Dr. von Linstow.–Polyzoa, by R. Kirkpatrick.–Anthozoa: Alcyonaria, by Dr. Louis Roule and Sydney J. Hickson.–Actiniæ, with an account of their peculiar brood chambers, by Joseph A. Clubb.–Hydrozoa; a preliminary account, by Edward T. Browne.–Porifera, by R. Kirkpatrick.
Contents: Cryptogamia: Musci, by A. Gepp. Lichenes, by V. H. Blackman. Algae, by Miss E. S. Barton. Peridineae, by V. H. Blackman.–Report on the rock specimens, by G. T. Prior.–Index.
Contents: Mammalia, by Capt. G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton.–Notes on Antarctic seals, by Edward A. Wilson.–Extracts from the private ‘diary’ of the late Nicolai Hanson.–Aves, by R. Bowdler Sharpe.–Pisces, by G. A. Boulenger.–Tunicata, by W. A. Herdman.–Mollusca, by Edgar A. Smith.–Echinoderma, by F. Jeffrey Bell.–Insecta: Collembola, by Geo. H. Carpenter. Pediculidæ, by the Hon. N. C. Rothschild.–Arachnida: Acarina, by Dr. E. L. Trouessart.–Crustacea, by T. V. Hodgson.–Polychaeta, by Arthur Willey.–Gephyrea, by A. E. Shipley.–Nematoda, by Dr von Linstow.–Cestoda, by Dr. von Linstow.–Polyzoa, by R. Kirkpatrick.–Anthozoa: Alcyonaria, by Dr. Louis Roule and Sydney J. Hickson.–Actiniæ, with an account of their peculiar brood chambers, by Joseph A. Clubb.–Hydrozoa; a preliminary account, by Edward T. Browne.–Porifera, by R. Kirkpatrick.
Contents: Cryptogamia: Musci, by A. Gepp. Lichenes, by V. H. Blackman. Algae, by Miss E. S. Barton. Peridineae, by V. H. Blackman.–Report on the rock specimens, by G. T. Prior.–Index.

Arctic Exploration -HOARE } D.M.
Hoare, J. Douglas. Arctic Exploration. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1906.

Handbook of Polar Discovery – Greely } D.M.
Greely, Adolphus W. Handbook of Polar Discoveries. Fifth edition. Boston: Little Brown, 1910.

Two Years in the Antarctic
Armitage, Albert Borlase. Two Years in the Antarctic, Being a Narrative of the British Antarctic Expedition. London: E. Arnold, 1905.

Vasco da Gama and his Successors } Capt. Davis
Jayne, Kingsley Garland. Vasco da Gama and his Successors, 1460-1580. London: Methuen & Co., 1910?

The North Pole } Mackellar
Peary, Robert Edwin. The North Pole. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1910.
This copy is in the Mackellar Library at the South Australian Museum (call # 919.8 .P36 n.c.3).

Nearest the Pole } Mackellar
Peary, Robert Edwin. Nearest the Pole: A Narrative of the Polar Arctic Club in the S. S. Roosevelt, 1905-1906. London: Hutchinson, 1907.
This copy is in the Mackellar Library at the South Australian Museum (call # 919.8 .P36).

Farthest North } Mackellar
Nansen, Fridtjof. Fridtjof Nansen’s “Farthest North: Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Fram, 1893-96, and of aFifteen Months’ Sleigh Journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen; with an Appendix by Otto Sverdrup. Two volumes. London: Macmillan, 1897.

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BOOKS
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Songs of a Sourdough } D.M .
Service, Robert William. Songs of a Sourdough. 16th Edition. Toronto: W. Briggs, 1909.

Ballads of a Cheechako } D.M.
Service, Robert William. Ballads of a Cheechako. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1910.

Five Nations } D.M.
Kipling, Rudyard. The Five Nations. Fifth edition. London: Methuen and Co., 1909.

Seven Seas } D.M.
Kipling, Rudyard. The Seven Seas. London: Methuen, 1911.

Barrack Room Ballads } D.M.
Kipling, Rudyard. Barrack Room Ballads. London: Methuen, 1900.

Departmental Ditties } D.M
Kipling, Rudyard. Departmental Ditties and Other Verses. 17th Edition. London: Methuen, 1909.

Virginibus Purisque [sic] } D.M.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers. 27th Edition. London: Chatto, 1906.

Philosophy of MARCUS AURELIUS } D.M.
Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome. The Golden Book of Marcus Aurelius. Trans. By Meric Casaubon. London: J.M. Dent & Co.; New York: Dutton, 1911.
There are dozens of possible editions with variant titles. This is but one possibility.

The trail of 1898 } D.M.
Service, Robert William. The Trail of ’98: A Northland Romance. London: Unwin, 1915.

Scientific ideas of to-day } Mackellar.
Gibson, Charles R. Scientific Ideas of To-day. Third Edition. London: Seeley & Co., 1909.
Three editions of this work appeared in 1909.

Practical Physics G. & S. } Mackellar.
Glazebrook, Richard Tetley and W. N. Shaw. Practical Physics. New Edition. London: Longmans,Green, 1905.

Physical Optics G } Mackellar.
Glazebrook, Richard Tetley. Physical Optics. Third Edition. London: Longmans, Green, 1907.

Structural & Physiological Botany } Mackellar.
Thomé, Otto Wilhelm. Text-book of Structural and Physiological Botany. By Otto W. Thome and Alfred W. Bennett. Eighth Edition. London: Longmans Green, 1897.
This is a likely attribution but the edition may have been another.

Pepys Diary } Mackellar.
Pepys, Samuel. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys. Four Volumes. London: G. Allen & Company, 1911.

Koran } Mackellar.

Arabian Nights } Mackellar.

Pickwick Papers } Mackellar.
Dickens, Charles. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. Two Volumes. London: Chapman and Hall, Lawrence and Jellicoe, 1911.

Decameron } Mackellar.
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375. The Decameron. London: Chatto & Windus, 1909.
This copy is in the Mackellar Library of the South Australian Museum (call # 853 .B66d c.2)

Lhassa } Mackellar.
Huc, Evariste-Regis. A Sojourn at Lhassa. [An Excerpt from Hazlitt’s Translation. London: Blackie?, 1905.

Who’s Who } Mackellar.

First Footsteps in east Africa } Mackellar.

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D.M. 4.

Swedish South Polar Expedition —-Fossil Wood — } D.M.

Tertiary Flora —- Cretaceous Cephlopods—-

Fossil Fish –Older Vertebrates –Fossil Corals

Several scientific pamphlets } D.M.
Impossible to identify.

POEMS by Lawrence Hope } D.M.
Hope, Laurence. India’s Love Lyrics, Including, The Garden of Kama. New York: J. Lane, 1909.

Golden Treasury of Australian Verse } D.M.
Stevens, Bertram. The Golden Treasury of Australian Verse. Revised Edition. Sydney, Australia: Angus and Robertson, 1909.

POEMS by Brown } D.M.
Unidentified.

Oxford book of verse } D.M.
The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900. Chosen & Edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1910.

Prose Quotations } D.M.
Benham, William Gurney. Prose Quotations. London, New York: Cassell and Company, 1911.

The letters of R.L. Stevenson } D.M.
Stevenson, Robert Lewis. The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson to his Family and Friends. Two Volumes. London: Methuen, 1901.

Daily Light } D.M.
Daily Light on the Daily Path. London: 1908.

Bible Talks } D.M.
Henninges, E. C, Bible Talks for Heart and Mind. Melbourne: The Covenant Publishing Co., 1911.

German self taught } D.M.
Thimm, Franz J. L. German Self-taught. Revised Edition: Baltimore: A. Stevebold, 1905.

In Northern Mists 2 Vols. } D.M.
Nansen, Fridjof. In Northern Mists: Arctic Exploration in Early Times. Trans. By Arthur G. Chater. Two Volumes. London: William Heinemann, 1911.

The cruise of the ARCTIC } D.M.
Stables, Gordon. The Cruise of the “Arctic Fox.” London: S. H. Bousfield, 1903.

First crossing of Spitzbergen } Mackellar
Conway, William Martin. The First Crossing of Spitsbergen. London: J.M. Dent, 1897.
This copy is part of the Mackellar Library at the South Australian Museum (call # 919.8 .C76 c.2)

The voyage of the FOX to the Arctic Seas } Mackellar
M’Clintock, Francis Leopold. The Voyage of the ‘Fox’ in the Arctic Seas in Search of Franklin and His Companions. Fourth Edition. London: John Murray, 1875.

Atlas of Ancient World } Mackellar
Unidentified.

Modern Geography } Mackellar
Newbigin, Marion Isabel. Modern Geography. London: Williams and Norgate, 1911?.

Charlemagne [sic] } Mackellar
Bulfinch, Thomas. Legends of Charlemagne. London: J.M. Dent; New York, Dutton, 1911.
Another possible title is Charlemagne, the Hero of Two Nations, by H. W. Carless Davis (London, New York, 1900).

Expression of the emotions in men and animals } Mackellar
Darwin, Charles. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. Popular Edition. London: J. Murray, 1904.

Game Trails } Mackellar
Not identified.

Ingoldsby Legends } Mackellar
Ingoldsby, Thomas. The Ingoldsby Legends, or, Mirth and Marvels. By Thomas Ingoldsby, Esq. (the Rev. Richard Harris Barham). London: J.M. Dent, 1907.

Paracelsus } Mackellar
Browning, Robert. Paracelsus. London: Methuen & Co., 1909.

Journal to Stella } Mackellar
Swift, Jonathan. The Journal to Stella. London: G. Newnes, 1904.

Poems by Tennyson } Mackellar
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron. The Poems of Alfred Tennyson. London: J.M. Dent; New York: E.P. Dutton, 1910.
This volume is in the Mawson Collection at the South Australian Museum, given by Mackellar (call # 821.81 .T31).

Poems of Henley } Capt. Davis
Henley, William Ernest. Poems. London: Nutt, 1909.

One Unlisted item from the Mackellar Library at the South Australian Museum:
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron. The Poems & Plays of Byron. Three Volumes. London: J.M. Dent; New York: E.P. Dutton, 1910.
Volumes 2 and 3 only (call # 821.76 .B9