Reginald William James collection 1914 - 1957

Shackleton, Ernest Henry, 1874-1922

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vf7qt5 (person)

Ernest Shackleton, leader of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition and part of two other Antarctic expeditions, acquired Polaris after her owner's financial trouble. Renamed Endurance after the Shackleton family motto Fortitudine vincimus (By Endurance we Conquer), she sailed intending to accomplish the first land crossing of the Antarctic continent. She departed for her final voyage on December 15, 1914 but progress was slow, averaging about 30 miles per day through pack ice. A month later, w...

James, Reginald William

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6n451xh (person)

Reginald William James was born in London on 9 January 1891. He was educated at the Regent Street Polytechnic and read physics at St John's College, Cambridge. After two years research studentship in the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, he joined the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition [Weddell Sea party], 1914-1916 (leader Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton) as physicist. After Endurance was lost, James played an important part in the saving of the expedition members by dete...

Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition Weddell Sea 1914-1916

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69t6pqv (corporateBody)

Mill, Hugh Robert, 1861-1950

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6z9300r (person)

Hugh Robert Mill was born at Thurso, Scotland, on 28 May 1861. He read chemistry and physics at Edinburgh University and specialised in marine chemistry, working on the scientific reports of the Challenger expedition under Sir John Murray. In 1887, he became lecturer in geography and physiography at Heriot-Watt College, Edinburgh, and four years later, published The realm of nature, an important textbook of scientific geography. In 1892, he was appointed librarian of the Royal Geogr...

Endurance (Steam yacht)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60t4n48 (corporateBody)

James, R. W. (Reginald William), 1891-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66n89dc (person)