Smith, Nowell

Nowell Smith lived in Sherborn, Dorset. During May of 1914 he corresponded with the Antarctic explorer Apsley Cherry-Garrard (assistant zoologist, British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913) regarding the possibility of the latter coming to the School at Sherborn to give a lecture on the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913 (leader Robert Falcon Scott). Cherry-Garrard, Edward Wilson and Henry Bowers had made a winter journey to the emperor penguin rookery at Cape Crozier to collect specimens during the expedition.

From the guide to the Nowell Smith collection, 1914, (Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge)