Discovery Investigations

Short description: Antarctic expedition

The former Antarctic exploration ship RRS Discovery was employed for the Discovery Investigations cruises between 1923 and 1931.

The Discovery Investigations were a series of scientific cruises and shore-based investigations into the biology of whales in the Southern Ocean. They were funded by the United Kingdom Colonial Office and organised by the Discovery Committee in London, which was formed in 1918. They were intended to provide the scientific background to stock management of the commercial Antarctic whale fishery.

The work of the Investigations contributed hugely to our knowledge of the whales, the krill they fed on, and the oceanography of their habitat, while charting the local topography, including Atherton Peak. The investigations continued until 1951, with the final report being published in 1980.

Specimens collected during the cruises are collectively known as the Discovery Collections.[1]

## Contents

* 1 Laboratory
* 2 Ships
* 3 Reports
* 3.1 List of the Discovery Reports
* 4 Books
* 5 References
* 6 External links

## Laboratory

Shore-based work on South Georgia took place in the marine laboratory, Discovery House, built in 1925 at King Edward Point and occupied until 1931. The scientists lived and worked in the building, travelling half a mile or so across King Edward Cove to the whaling station at Grytviken to work on whales as they were brought ashore by commercial whaling ships.

## Ships

Vessels used were:

* RRS Discovery from 1924 to 1931
* RRS William Scoresby from 1927 to 1945 or later[2]
* RRS Discovery II from 1929 to 1951[2]

## Reports

Results of the investigations were printed in the Discovery Reports. This was a series of many small reports, published in 38 volumes by the Cambridge University Press , and latterly the Institute of Oceanographic Sciences. Many were printed as individual reports rather than in large volumes.

### List of the Discovery Reports

Volume

Pages/Plates/Charts

| Title  | Author  | Published

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Volume I
| List of Personnel  |  |
pp. 1–140

Plates I - VI

| Station List 1925 - 1927  |  | January 1929
pp. 143–232

Plates VII - XVIII

| Objects, Equipment and Methods  | S Kemp ScD

A C Hardy MA
N A Mackintosh ARCS MSc

| July 1929
pp. 235–255

Plates XIX - XXIV

| The Natural History of the Elephant Seal

with Notes on Other Seals Found at South Georgia

| L Harrison Matthews MA  | July 1929
pp. 259–540

Plates XXV - XLIV

| Southern Blue and Fin Whales  | N A Mackintosh ARCS MSc

J F G Wheeler MSc

| December 1929
pp. 543–560  | Parasitic Nematoda and Acanthocephala Collected in 1925 - 1927  | H A Bayliss MA DSc  | December 1929
pp. 563–592

Plates XLV - LVI

| The Birds of South Georgia  | L Harrison Matthews MA  | December 1929
Volume II
pp. 3–222  | Polychaete Worms  | C C A Monroe MA  | October 1930
pp. 225–260

Plate I

| Thoracic Cirripedes Collected in 1925-1927  | C A Nilsson-Cantell, Sweden  | October 1930
pp. 263–370

Plate II

| Oceanic Fishes and Flatfishes Collected in 1925 - 1927  | J R Norman  | October 1930
pp. 373–402

Plates III - IV

| Cephalopoda, I. Octopoda | G C Robson MA  | November 1930
pp. 405–434

Plate V

| The Age of Fin Whales at Physical Maturity with a Note on Multiple Ovulations  | J F G Wheeler MSc  | January 1931
pp. 437–482

Plates VI - VII

| The Anatomy of a Marine Ostracod Cypridina (Doloria) Levis Skogsberg  | H Graham Cannon ScD  | February 1931
Volume III
| List of Personnel January 1932  |  |
pp. 3–132

Plates I - X

| Station List 1927 - 1929  |  | January 1931
pp. 135–198

Plates XI - XXXI

| The South Sandwich Islands

(With a report on Rock Specimens by GW Tyrrell ARCSc DSc FGS FRSE)

| S Kemp ScD FRS

A L Nelson RNR

| November 1931
pp. 201–222

Plate XXXII

| Nebaliacea  | H Graham Cannon ScD  | December 1931
pp. 225–260

Plates XXXIII - XXXVIII

| Cephalodiscus | C C John MA  | December 1931
pp. 263–268  | Spiders Collected by the Discovery Expedition,

with a Description of a New Species from South Georgia

| W S Bristowe BA FZS  | December 1931
pp. 269–296

Plate XXXIX

| Mollusca: Gastropoda Thecosomata and Gymnosomata | Anne L Massy  | March 1932
pp. 299–344

Plates XL - XLIV
Charts 1 - 4

| Narrative of Hydrographic Survey Operations in South Georgia and the South Shetland Islands  | Lt Cdr J M Chaplin RN  | June 1932
Volume IV
pp. 3–230

Plates I - IV

| Station List 1929 - 1931  |  | July 1932
pp. 235–265  | Oligochaeta. Part I. Microdrili (Mainly Enchytraeidae)  | J Stephenson CIE MB DSc FRS  | May 1932
pp. 267–291  | Oligochaeta. Part II. Earthworms  | Grace E Pickford PhD,
Osborn Zoological Laboratory, Yale University  | May 1932
pp 293 – 460v

Plates VI - XVII

| Foraminifera. Part I. The Ice-Free Area of the Falkland Islands and Adjacent Seas  | Edward Heron-Allen FRS

Arthur Earland FRMS

| August 1932
Volume V
pp 3 – 326v

Plate I

| Amphipoda  | K H Barnard DSc FLS  | August 1932
pp. 329–363  | The Vascular Networks (Retia Mirabilia) of the Fin Whale (Balaenoptera physalus)  | F D Omanney ARCS BSc  | September 1932
pp. 365–466

Plates II - III

| The Uro-Genital System of the Fin Whale (Balaenoptera physalus)  | F D Omanney ARCS BSc  | September 1932
pp. 469–484

Plate IV

| Lobster-krill: Anomuran Crustacea that are the Food of Whales  | L Harrison Matthews MA  | November 1932
Volume VI
pp. 1–138  | Pycnogonida | Isabella Gordon DSc PhD,

Assistant keeper in the Department of zoology, British Museum (Natural History)

| December 1932
pp. 139–164

Plates I - VI

| Report on Penguin Embryos Collected During the Discovery Investigations  | C W Parsons BA,

Lecturer in zoology at the University of Glasgow

| December 1932
pp. 165–190

Plates VII - XLII

| On the Distribution and Movements of Whales on the South Georgia and South Shetland Whaling Grounds  | Stanley Kemp ScD FRS

A G Bennett

| December 1932
pp. 191–204

Plates XLIII - XLIV

| On the Development of Cephalodiscus | C C John MA DSc DIC  | December 1932
pp. 205–236

Plates XLV - XLVII
Charts 1 - 7

| Report on Soundings Taken During the Discovery Investigations 1926 - 1932  | H F P Herdman MSc  | December 1932
pp. 237–392

Plates XLVIII-LVII

| Sponges  | Maurice Burton MSc,

Assistant-Keeper, Department of Zoology, British Museum (Nat. Hist.)

| December 1932
Volume VII
pp. 3–15  | Fossil Forminifera from the Burdwood Bank and their Geological Significance  | W A Macfadyen MC MA PhD FGS  | February 1933
pp. 17–27  | Faecal Pellets from Marine Deposits  | Hilary B Moore BSc  | March 1933
pp. 29–138

Plates 1 - VII

| Foraminifera. Part II, South Georgia  | Arthur Earland FRSE FRMS  | June 1933
pp. 139–170  | On Vertical Circulation in the Ocean due to the Action of the Wind with Application to Conditions within the Antarctic Circumpolar Current | H U Sverdrup  | November 1933
pp. 173–238

Plates VIII - X

| A General Account of the Hydrology of the South Atlantic Ocean  | G E R Deacon BSc  | November 1933
pp. 241–252

Plates XI - XIII

| Whaling in the Dominion of New Zealand  | F D Ommanney ARCS BSc  | December 1933
pp. 255–362

Plate XIV

| Isopod Crustacea. Part I, The Family Serolidae  | Edith M Sheppard MSc  | December 1933
pp. 365–406

Plate XV

| Some Aspects of Respiration in Blue and Fin Whales  | Alec H Laurie MA  | December 1933
Volume VIII
| List of Personnel March 1934  |  |
pp. 3–270  | On the Phytoplankton of the South-West Atlantic and the Bellingshausen Sea  | T John Hart BSc  | January 1934
pp. 271–318

Plates I - XIII

| The Southern Sea Lion, Otaria byronia (De Blainville)  | J E Hamilton MSc  | January 1934
pp. 321–330  | On a New Species of Mite of the Family Halarachnidae from the Southern Sea Lion | Susan Finnegan BSc PhD  | January 1934
pp. 331–396

Plates XIV - XV

| Scyphomedusae | G Stiasny DSC, Leiden  | February 1934
Volume IX
pp. 3–66  | Hydrology of the Bransfield Strait  | A J Clowes M.Sc. ARCS  | February 1934
pp. 67–160  | Distribution of the Macroplankton in the Atlantic Sector of the Antarctic  | N A Mackintosh D.Sc  | April 1934
pp. 163–174

Plate I

| The Sub-Antarctic Forms of the Great Skua (Catharacta skua skua)  | J E Hamilton M.Sc.  | June 1934
pp. 177–206

Plates II - XIV

| The Marine Deposits of the Patagonian Shelf | L Harrison Matthews MA  | August 1934
pp. 209–216  | The Development of Rhincalanus | Robert Gurney  | September 1934
pp. 217–294

Plates XV - XVI

| Nemerteans from the South Atlantic and Southern Oceans  | J F G Wheeler D.Sc.  | November 1934
pp. 297–350

Plates XVI - XXII

| The Sea Floor Deposits. I General Characteristics and Distribution  | E Neaverson DSc FGS  | December 1934
pp. 351–372  | On the Stock of Whales at South Georgia  | J FG Wheeler D.Sc.  | December 1934
Volume X
pp. 3–210

Plates I-X

| Foraminifera, Part III. The Falklands Sector of the Antarctic (Excluding South Georgia)  | Arthur Earland FRMS  | December 1934
pp. 211–248  | The Falkland Species of the Crustacean Genus Munida | G W Rayner BSc  | April 1935
pp. 249–282

Plate XI

| On the Diatoms of the Skin Film of Whales, and their Possible Bearing on Problems of Whale Movements  | T John Hart MSc  | June 1935
pp. 285–382

Plates XII - XXV

| The South Orkney Islands  | James W S Marr MA BSc  | November 1935
pp. 383–390  | Report on Rocks from the South Orkney Islands  | CE Tilley BSc PhD  | December 1935
Volume XI
pp. 1–456  | The Plankton of the South Georgia Whaling Grounds and Adjacent Waters  | A C Hardy MA

ER Gunther MA

| November 1935
pp. 457–510  | The Continuous Plankton Recorder  | A C Hardy MA  | December 1936
pp. 511–538  | Observations on the Uneven Distribution of Oceanic Plankton  | A C Hardy MA  | November 1936
Volume XII
| List of Personnel 1936  |  |
pp. 1–58  | Coast Fishes. Part I. The South Atlantic  | J R Norman  | December 1935
pp. 59–198  | Polychaete Worms  | C C A Monro MA  | January 1936
pp. 199–348

Plates I - IX

| Echinoidea and Ophiuroidea | Th. Mortensen  | March 1936
pp. 349–378

Plates X - XII

| The Birds of the South Orkney Islands  | R A B Ardley RNR  | February 1936
pp. 379–440  | Larvae of Decapod Crustecea  | Robert Gurney DSc  | September 1936
Volume XIII
pp. 1–76

Plates I - IIa

| Foraminifera. Part IV, Additional Records from the Weddell Sea Sector from Material Obtained by the SY Scotia

With a report on Some Crystalline Components of the Weddell Sea Deposits. by FA Bannister MA

| Arthur Earland FRMS  | September 1936
pp. 77–106  | The Royal Research Ship Discovery II  | R A B Ardley RNR

N A Mackintosh DSc

| July 1936
pp. 109–276

Plates XIV - XVI

| A Report on Oceanographical Investigations in the Peru Coastal Current  | E R Gunther MA  | October 1936
pp. 277–384  | Rhincalanus Gigas (Brady) A Copepod of the Southern Macroplankton  | F D Ommanney PhD ARCS  | October 1936
Volume XIV
pp. 1–192  | On the Development and Distribution of the Young Stages of Krill (Euphausia superba)  | F C Fraser BSc  | December 1936
pp. 193–324  | The Southern Species of the genus Euphausia | D. Dilwyn John  | 14 December 1936
pp. 325-350
Plates I - V  | The reproductive system of Euphausia superba | Helene E. Bargmann PhD  | 25 June 1937
pp. 351–404  | Larvae of Decapod Crustacea. Part IV. Hippolytidae | Robert Gurney DSc  | June 1937
Volume XV
pp. 1–124  | The Hydrology of the Southern Ocean  | G E R Deacon BSc  | March 1937
pp. 125–152  | Note on the Dynamics of the southern Ocean  | G E R Deacon  | March 1937
pp. 153–222  | New Species of Marine Mollusca from New Zealand  | A W B Powell  | March 1937
pp. 223–284  | The Age of Female Blue Whales and the Effect of Whaling on the Stock  | Alec H Laurie MA  | May 1937
Volume XVI
pp. 1–150

Plates I - V

| Coast Fishes. Part II. The Patagonian Region  | J R Norman  | February 1937
pp. 151–364

Plates VI - XIII

| The Plankton Diatoms of the Southern Seas  | N Ingram Hendey FLS FRMS  | April 1937
pp. 365–412  | The Seasonal Circulation of the Antarctic Macroplankton  | N A Mackintosh DSc  | April 1937
pp. 413–446

Plate XIV

| Rhizosolenia curvata Zacharias, an Indicator Species in the Southern Ocean  | T John Hart DSc  | May 1937
Volume XVII
pp. 1–6

Plate I

| On the Histological Structure of Cetacean Lungs  | F Haynes MA

Alec H Laurie MA

| July 1937
pp. 9–92

Plate II

| The Humpback Whale, Megaptera nodosa | L. Harrison Matthews, M.A.  | January 1938
pp. 95-168

Plates III-XI

| The Sperm Whale, Physeter catodon | L. Harrison Matthews, M.A.  | March 1938
pp. 169-182

Plates XII-XVII

| Notes On The Southern Right Whale, Eubalaena australis | L. Harrison Matthews, M.A.  | April 1938
pp. 185-290

Plates XVIII, XIX

| The Sei Whale, Balaenoptera borealis | L. Harrison Matthews, M.A.  | June 1938
pp. 291–344  | Larvae of Decapod Crustecea. Part V. Nephropsidea and Thalassinidea | Robert Gurney D.Sc.  | July 1938
Volume XVIII
pp. 1–104

Plate I

| Coast Fishes. Part III. The Antarctic Zone  | J R Norman  | May 1938
pp105 – 120

Plate II

| On the Operation of Large Plankton Nets  | James W S Marr MA BSc  | August 1938
pp. 121–222

Plates III - VI

| Crinoidea | D Dilwyn John MSc  | October 1938
pp. 223–238  | Thoracic Cirripeded Collected in 1925 - 1936  | C A Nilsson-Cantell, Sweden  | January 1939
pp. 239–264

Plates VII - XIII

| The Leopard Seal Hydrurga leptonyx (De Blainville)  | J E Hamilton MSc  | October 1939
pp. 265–322

Plates XIV - XIX

| Hydromedusae from the Falkland Islands  | Edward T Browne

PL Kramp

| November 1939
pp. 323–338

Plates XX - XXI

| Madreporarian Corals, with an Account of Variation in Carophyllia | J Stanley Gardiner MS FRS  | November 1939
Volume XIX
pp. 1–120

Plates I - XXV

| Phosphate and Silicate in the Southern Ocean  | A J Clowes MSc ARCS  | October 1938
pp. 121–164

Plates XXVII - XXXIII

| A Second Report on the Southern Sea Lion, Otaria Byronia (De Blainville)  | J E Hamilton MSc  | December 1939
pp. 165–184

Plates XXXIV - XXXVIII

| MacRobertson Land and Kemp Land, 1936

With a Report on Rock Specimens by CE Tilley FRS

| George W Rayner  | May 1940
pp. 185–244

Plates XXXIX - XLII

| On the Anatomy of Gigantocypris Mulleri | H Graham Cannon ScD FRCS  | July 1940
pp. 245–284

Plates XLIII - LXVIII

| Whale Marking, Progress and Results to December 1939  | George W Rayner  | July 1940
pp. 285–296

Plates LXIX - XCV

| Distribution of the Pack Ice in the Southern Ocean  | N A Mackintosh DSc

HFP Herdman MSc

| July 1940
Volume XX
pp. 1–68  | Larvae of Decapod Crustacea. Part VI. The Genus Sergestes  | R Gurney and M V Lebour  | July 1940
pp. 69–306

Plates I - XXIII

| Asteroidea  | Walter K Fisher  | November 1940
pp. 307–382

Plates XXIV - XXVI

| On the Structure of the Photophores of some Decapod Crustacea  | Ralph Dennell DSc  | December 1940
Volume XXI
pp. 1–226

Plates I - IV

| Station List 1931 - 1933  |  | February 1941
pp. 227–234

Plates V - VI

| A Rare Porpoise of the South Atlantic, Phocaena dioptrica (Lahille, 1912)  | J E Hamilton DSc  | February 1941
pp. 235–260

Plates VII - VIII

| The Euchiuridae, Sipunculidae and Priapulidae Collected by the Ships of the Discovery Committee During the Years 1926 to 1937  | A C Stephen DSc  | October 1941
pp. 261–356  | Phytoplankton Periodicity in Antarctic Surface Waters  | T John Hart DSc  | October 1942
Volume XXII
pp. 1–196

Plate I - IV

| Station List 1933 - 1935  |  | March 1942
pp. 197–300  | The Southern Stocks of Whalebone Whales  | N A Mackintosh DSc  | June 1942
pp. 301–510

Plates V - XIII

| Polyzoa (Bryozoa) I. Scrupocellariidae, Epistomiidae, Farciminariidae, Bicellariellidae, Aeteidae, Scrupariidae  | Anna B Hastings MA PhD

British Museum (Natural History)

| September 1943
Volume XXIII
pp. 1–18  | The Gut of Nebaliacea  | Helen G Q Rowett  | October 1943
pp. 19–36  | On a Specimen of the Southern Bottlenosed Whale, Hyperoodon planifrons | F C Fraser DSc  | March 1945
pp 37 – 102  | Report on Rocks from West Antarctica and the Scotia Arc  | G W Tyrell ARCSc DSc FGS FRSE  | June 1945
pp. 103–176  | The Development and Life-History of Adolescent and Adult Krill, Euphausia superba | Helene E Bargmann PhD  | June 1945
pp. 177–212

Plates I - XIV

| The Antarctic Convergence and the Distribution of Surface Temperatures in Antarctic Waters  | N A Mackintosh DSc  | January 1946
pp. 213–222

Plate XV

| Nebalipsis typica | H Graham Cannon ScD FRS  | August 1946
pp. 223–408

Plate XVI

| Report on the Trawling Surveys on the Patagonian Continental Shelf

Compiled mainly from manuscripts left by the late ER Gunther MA

| T John Hart DSc  | December 1946
Volume XXIV
pp. 1–196

Plates I - III

| Station List 1935 - 1937  |  | November 1944
pp. 197–422

Plates IV - VI

| Station List 1937 - 1939  |  | April 1947
Volume XXV
pp. 1–30

Plates I - IV

| Antarctic Pyrenocarp Lichens  | I Mackenzie Lamb D.Sc.  | March 1948
pp. 31–38

Plates V - XXII

| Whale Marking II. Distribution of Blue, Fin and Humpback Whales Marked from 1932 to 1938  | George W Rayner  | May 1948
pp. 39–106

Plates XXIII - XXXI

| Soundings Taken During the Discovery Investigations, 1932–39  | H F P Herdman M.Sc.  | September 1948
pp. 107–112

Plate XXXII

| On the Reproductive Organs of Holozoa Cylindrica Lesson  | Dr A Arnback Christie-Linde  | March 1949
pp. 143–280

Plates XXXIV - XXXVII

| Discovery Investigations Station List RRS William Scoresby 1931 - 1938  |  | September 1949
pp. 281–314

Plates XXXVIII - XLI

| Ellobiopsidae  | Dr H Boschma FMLS CMZS  | November 1949
Volume XXVI
pp. 1–32

Plate I

| The Bathypelagic Angler Fish Ceratias holbölli Kröyer  | Robert Clarke MA  | September 1950
pp. 33–46

Plates II - IV

| Stylasteridae (Hydrocorals) from Southern Seas  | Prof. Hjalmar Broch

University of Oslo

| January 1951
pp. 47–196

Plates V - X

| Antarctic and Subantarctic Mollusca: Pelecypoda and Gastropoda  | A W B Powell FRSNZ  | March 1951
pp. 197–210  | The Vampyromorpha of the Discovery Expeditions  | Grace E Pickford  | July 1952
pp. 211–258

Plates XI - XII

| Discovery Investigations Station List RRS William Scoresby 1950  |  | April 1953
pp. 259–280  | A Preliminary Report on the Ostracoda of the Benguela Current  | E J Iles  | October 1953
pp. 281–354

Plates XIII - XVIII

| Open Boat Whaling in the Azores: The History and Present Methods of a Relic Industry  | Robert Clarke MA  | February 1954
pp. 355–384  | Dispersal in Blue and Fin Whales | S G Brown  | January 1954
Volume XXVII
pp. 1–162

Plates I - XII

| Siphonophora of the Indian Ocean

Together with Systematic and Biological Notes on Related Specimens from Other Oceans

| A K Totton

British Museum (Natural History)

| April 1954
pp. 163–200  | The Pelagic Mollusca of the Benguela Current

Part I. First Survey RRS William Scoresby March 1950
With an Account of the Reproductive System and Sexual Succession of Limacina bulimoides

| J E Morton PhD  | August 1954
pp. 201–208  | The Circumpolar Continuity of Antarctic Plankton Species  | A de C Baker

National Institute of Oceanography

| August 1954
pp. 219–234  | The Planktonic Decapod Crustacea and Stomatopoda of the Benguela Current

Part I. First Survey RRS William Scoresby March 1950

| Marie V Lebour DSc  | October 1954
pp. 235–278

Plate XIII

| The Distribution of Sagitta gazella Ritter-Zahony  | P M David  | April 1955
pp. 279–291  | Cumacea of the Benguela Current  | N S Jones PhD

Marine Biological Station, Port Erin

| June 1955
pp. 293–302

Plates XIV - XVIII

| The Wax Plug in the External Auditory Meatus of the Mysticeti  | P E Purves

Dept of Zoology, British Museum (Nat. Hist.)

| July 1955
pp. 337–376  | Euphausiacea of the Benguela Current

First Survey, RRS William Scoresby, March 1950

| Brian P Boden  | August 1955
pp. 377–395

Plates XX - XXI

| Cestodes of Whales and Dolphins from the Discovery Collections  | S Markowski  | September 1955
Volume XXVIII
pp. 1–190  | Mysidacea  | Olive S Tattersall DSc  | November 1955
pp. 191–236  | The Distribution of the Standing Crop of Zooplankton in the Southern Ocean  | P Foxton  | April 1956
pp. 237–298

Plates I - II

| Sperm Whales of the Azores  | Robert Clarke  | December 1956
pp. 299–398

Plates III - V

| Station List 1950 - 1951  |  | November 1955
Volume XXIX
pp. 1–128

Plates I - VII

| Hydromedusae from the Discovery Collections  | P L Kramp  | February 1957
pp. 129–140  | New Observations on the Aberrant Medusa Tetraplatia volitans Busch  | Willam J Rees and Ernest White

British Museum (Natural History)

| February 1957
pp. 141–198

Plates VIII - IX

| Isopod Crustacea Part II. The Sub-order Valvifera. Families: Idoteidae, Pseudidotheidae and Xenarctuidae Fam.N.

With a Supplement to Isopod Crustacea, Part I. The Family Serolidae

| Edith M Shephard

Department of Zoology, Cardiff

| September 1957
pp. 199–228

Plates X

| The Distribution of the Chaetognatha of the Southern Ocean  | P M David  | April 1958
pp. 229–244  | The Reliability of Deep-Sea Reversing Thermometers  | H F P Herdman and

L H Pemberton

| May 1958
pp. 245–280

Plates XI - XII

| Octocorals Part I. Pennaturalarians  | Hjalmar Broch

The Zoological Laboratory, Oslo-Blindern, Norway

| December 1958
pp. 281–308

Plate XIII

| The Foetal Growth Rates of Whales with Special Reference to the Fin Whale, Balaenoptera Physalus Linn.  | R M Laws

National Institute of Oceanography

| March 1959
pp. 309–340  | The Distribution and Life History of Euphausia triacantha Holt and Tatersall  | A de C Baker  | April 1959
Volume XXX
pp. 1–160

Plates I - VI

| Ascidiacea  | R H Millar  | February 1960
pp. 161–300  | The Distribution of Pelagic Polychaetes in the South Atlantic Ocean  | Norman Tebble

British Museum (Natural History)

| April 1960
pp. 301–408

Plates VII - XXVIII

| Studies on Physalia physalis (L.)

Part I. Natural History and Morphology
Part II. Behaviour and Histology

A K Totton
G O Mackie

| August 1960
Volume XXXI
pp. 1–122

Plates I - III

| Swimbladder Structure of Deep-Sea Fishes in Relation to Their Systematics and Biology  | N B Marshall

British Museum (Natural History)

| November 1960
pp. 123–298  | The Benguela Current | T John Hart

Ronald I Currie

| November 1960
pp. 299–326  | The Appendages of the Halocyprididae  | E J Iles

Dept. Zoology, Univ. of Manchester

| February 1961
pp. 327–486

Plates IV - VII

| Reproduction, Growth and Age of Southern Fin Whales | R M Laws  | November 1961
Volume XXXII
pp. 1–32

Plates I - II

| Salpa fusiformis Cuvier and Related Species  | P Foxton  | October 1961
33 - 464

Plate III

| The Natural History and Geography of the Antarctic Krill (Euphausia superba Dana)  | James Marr  | November 1962
Volume XXXIII
pp. 1–54

Charts 1 - 11

| The Movements of Fin and Blue Whales within the Antarctic Zone  | S G Brown  | March 1962
pp. 55–92

Plate I

| Rhizocephala  | H Boschma

Rijksmuseum van Ntuurijke Historie, Leiden

| November 1962
pp. 93–250

Plates II - VII

| Antarctic and Subantarctic Mollusca: Amphineura, Scaphopoda and Bivalva  | R K Dell

Dominion Museum, Wellington, New Zealand

| November 1964
pp. 251–307

Plates VIII - XXI

| Larves de Cerianthaires  | E Leloup

Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique

| November 1964
pp. 309–334  | The Latitudinal Distribution of Euphausia Species in the Surface Waters of the Indian Ocean  | A de C Baker

National Institute of Oceanography, Wormley, Godalming, Surrey

| April 1965
pp. 335–384

Plates XXII - XXVI

| Development of the stolon in Salpa fusiformis Cuvier and Salpa aspera Chamisso  | R M Sawicki

Rothamstead Experimental Station

| April 1966
Volume XXXIV
pp. 1–116  | The Distribution and Life-History of Salpa Thompsoni Foxton with Observations on a Related Species, Salpa Gerlachei Foxton  | P Foxton  | July 1966
pp. 117–162  | The Distribution and Life-History of Calanoides acutus (Giesbrecht)  | Keith J H Andrews  | September 1966
pp. 163–198  | The Distribution of Parathemisto Gaudichaudii (Guer), with Observations on its Life-History in the 0° - 20° E Sector of the Southern Ocean  | Jasmine E Kane  | October 1966
pp. 199–394

Plates 1 - 17

| Polyzoa (Bryozoa) - Ascophora - from North New Zealand  | Neil Andrew Powell

National Museum of Canada, Ottawa

| September 1967
Volume XXXV
pp. 1–30

Plates I - IV

| Seasonal Formation of Laminae in the Ear Plug of the Fin Whale  | H S J Roe

Whale Research Unit,
National Institute of Oceanography

| September 1967
pp. 31–134  | Seasonal Cycles and Reproduction in Sei Whales of the Southern Hemisphere  | Ray Gambell

Whale Research Unit,
National Institute of Oceanography

| September 1968
pp. 135–178  | Spirorbis Species (Polychaeta: Serpulidae) From the South Atlantic  | Tegwyn Harris

Department of Zoology,
Exeter University

| September 1969
pp. 179–198

Plates V - VI

| On Ihlea Magalhanica (Apstein) (Tunicata: Salpidae) and Ihlea Racovitzai (Van Beneden)  | P Foxton

National Institute of Oceanography

| January 1971
pp. 199-358  | Sperm whales off Durban  | R Gambell

Whale Research Unit, National Institute of Oceanography

| 1972
Volume XXXVI
pp. 1–94  | Life Cycle of Antarctic Krill in Relation to Ice and Water Conditions  | N A Mackintosh

Natural Environment Research Council

| February 1972
pp. 95–156

Plates I - XVII

| Distribution of Post-Larval Krill in the Antarctic  | N A Mackintosh

Natural Environment Research Council

| December 1973
pp. 157–178  | Sizes of Krill Eaten by Whales in the Antarctic  | N A Mackintosh

Natural Environment Research Council

| April 1974
pp. 179–266  | Monogena and Digena from Fishes  | David I Gibson

British Museum (Natural History)

| February 1976
Volume XXXVII
pp. 1–324  | Cephalopoda in the Diet of Sperm Whales of the Southern Hemisphere and their Bearing on Sperm Whale Biology  | Malcolm R Clarke

Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, Plymouth

| March 1980

## Books

The Discovery Investigations are described in the following books, all of which were out of print in 2008:

* Hardy, Alister Clavering, Sir (1968). Great Waters. New York: Harper & Row. https://archive.org/details/greatwatersvoyag00hard.
* Ommanney, F. D. (1938). South Latitude. London: Longmans, Green and Co.. https://archive.org/details/SouthLatitude.
* Coleman-Cooke, John (1963). Discovery II In The Antarctic. London: Odhams Press. https://archive.org/details/discoveryiiinant0000cole.
* Saunders, Alfred (1950). A Camera in Antarctica. London: Winchester Publications.

## References

1. ↑ Skinner, L. (2020). The Mini Monsters. National Maritime Museum Cornwall, 12 February 2020.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Mills, William James (2003). Exploring Polar Frontiers: A Historical Encyclopedia, Volume 1. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 1576074226. https://books.google.com/books?id=PYdBH4dOOM4C. Retrieved 2012-08-17.

## External links

* Scanned copies of many of the reports are available at the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

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