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THE Rev. James Gordon Hayes, Vicar of Storridge, near Malvern, died on November 21 in his sixtieth year. He devoted much attention to a critical study of the records of polar exploration and was the author of four outstanding books on the subject. In “Antarctica”, published in 1928, he dealt with the natural features of the Antarctic continent and the journeys of explorers during the first quarter of the twentieth century. It was the result of a great amount of reading and gave an important comparison of the methods and results of modern explorers. This was followed in 1932 by a more distinctively historical work “The Conquest of the South Pole”, designed as a continuation of Dr. H. R. Mill's “Siege of the South Pole” and showing deeper appreciation of the personal qualities of explorers than was apparent in the earlier work. The other two books, relating to north polar exploration, were “Robert Edwin Peary”, an endeavour to show the improbability of that explorer having reached the pole, and “The Conquest of the North Pole”, a well-balanced summary of Arctic exploration in the twentieth century.
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M., H. Rev. J. Gordon Hayes. Nature 138, 1044 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/1381044b0
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