Excerpt from Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of S. Y. "Scotia" During the Years 1902, 1903 and 1904, Under the Leadership of William S. Bruce, Vol. 4: Zoology, Part 1. Zoological Log

From the start of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition to its finish the open-air observations of the naturalists on board were recorded daily in this log. The log makes no pretensions to being anything more than a field note-book of the natural history of the voyage. It was, naturally, impossible to identify all birds seen on the wing, and all marine animals passed by when the ship was making passages from one point to another. In consequence, especially during the passage of the Scotia through the tropics, the records on many days are slight, and if the entries occasionally have little scientific value, they can at least claim to be a faithful record of life observed. During the Scotia's'

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