It was his ambition that in his ship there should be the most completely equipped expedition for scientific purposes connected with the polar regions, both as regards men and material, that ever left these shores.

In this he succeeded.

He had on board a fuller complement of geologists, one of them especially trained for the study of physiography, biologists, physicists, and surveyors than ever before composed the staff of a polar expedition.

Thus Captain Scott's objects were strictly scientific, including the completion and extension of his former discoveries.

The results will be explained in the second volume of this work.