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A COMMITTEE consisting of representatives of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Royal Physical Society and the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, has awarded the Dr. W. S. Bruce Memorial Prize to James W. S. Marr, who first went to Polar regions with Sir Ernest Shackleton in the Quest in 1921, sailing as a boy scout. On Shackleton's death, the expedition continued under Commander Worsley into the Weddell Sea. Marr next sailed with Commander Worsley in 1925 to Spitsbergen and White Island in the Algarsson expedition. In 1927 he joined the staff of the R.R.S. Discovery and since then, with brief intervals at home, he has spent his time in the Southern Ocean, partly in the old Discovery and partly in Discovery II. From 1929 until 1931 he was in Discovery when she was lent to Sir Douglas Mawson for the British-Australian-New Zealand Expedition which found many new stretches of the coast line of Antarctica. Last year Marr published in the “Discovery Reports” a large monograph on the South Orkney Islands, which extended the original researches of Dr. W. S. Bruce on that Antarctic Group.
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Dr. W. S. Bruce Memorial Prize. Nature 138, 67 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138067b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/138067b0