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THE ANTARCTICAN SOCIETY 905 NORTH JACKSONVILLE STREET ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA 22205 HONORARY PRESIDENT - MRS. PAUL A. SIPLE _____________________________________________________ Vol. 87-88 May No. 6 Presidents: Dr. Carl R. Eklund, 1959-61 Dr. Paul A. Siple, 1961-62 ANTARCTIC EXPLORERS STAMPS TO BE ISSUED IN WASHINGTON 12 SEPTEMBER 1988 Mr. Gordon D. Cartwright, 1962-63 RADM David M. Tyree(Ret.), 1963-64 Mr. George R. Toney, 1964-65 Mr. Morton J. Rubin, 1965-66 Dr. Albert P. Crary, 1966-68 MID-WINTER PICNIC Dr. Henry M. Dater, 1968-70 Mr. George A. Doumani, 1970-71 Dr. William J. L. Sladen, 1971- 73 at Mr. Peter F. Bermel, 1973-75 Dr. Kenneth J. Bertrand, 1975-77 Mrs. Paul A. Siple, 1977-78 STRONGHOLD Comus, Maryland Dr. Paul C. Dalrymple, 1978-80 Dr. Meredith F. Burrill, 1980-82 Sunday, June 19th, 1988 Dr. Mort D. Turner, 1982-84 Dr. Edward P. Todd, 1984-86 2 PM to sundown Mr. Robert H. T. Dodson, 1986-88 Honorary Members: Ambassador Paul C. Daniels We are planning to hold a Mid-winter picnic at Stronghold, an old- Dr. Laurence McKinley Gould Count Emilio Pucci time favorite spot, and hope enough of you will want to attend so we Sir Charles S. Wright can meet the minimum requirement. PLEASE send your reservation with Mr. Hugh Blackwell Evans Dr. Henry M. Dater a check — $16 per person — by 12 June 1988 - to Ruth J. Siple, 905 Mr. August Howard N. Jacksonville Street, Arlington, VA 22205. Paul C. Daniels Memorial Lecturers: The meal will be catered by Comus Inn and will consist of sweet and Dr. William J. L. Sladen, 1964 sour meatballs, fried chicken, baked ham, breaded fish fillets, au RADM David M. Tyree (Ret.), 1 965 Dr. Roger Tory Peterson, 1966 gratin potatoes, 4-bean salad, tropical fruit salad, dinner rolls, Dr. J. Campbell Craddock , 1967 coffee-tea-milk, and chocolate cake. Mr. James Pranke, 1968 Dr. Henry M. Dater, 1970 Sir Peter M. Scott, 1971 To get there, take Route 270 North towards Frederick. Exit at Dr. Frank Davies, 1972 Mr. Scott McVay, 1973 Hyattstown-Comus, circle under 1-270, follow Route 109 for 3.3 miles Mr. Joseph O. Fletcher. 1974 to Comus. Turn right on Route 95 and go 2.5 miles. Cross inter- Mr. Herman R. Friis, 1975 Dr. Kenneth J. Bertrand, 1976 section, and 1/4 of a mile farther you will find a road turning off Dr. William J. L. Sladen, 1977 to the right, going upslope. Pass the first house, then turn into Dr. J. Murray Mitchell, Jr., 1978 Dr. Laurence McKinley Gould , 1979 the parking lot below the next house - Stronghold. Bring your own Dr. Charles R. Bentley, 1980 lawn chairs, and bring your own libations to see you through until Dr. Robert L. Nichols, 1981 Dr. Robert H. Rutford, 1982 dinner is served late in the afternoon, around 4 PM. Mr. R. Tucker Scully, 1983 Dr. Richard P. Goldthwait , 1984 Dr. Mark F. Meier, 1985 Dr. Claude Lorius, 1986 The 1988 Memorial Lecture will be presented in Columbus, Ohio the last week in October by the noted polar historian, Peter Anderson, Byrd Polar Research Center, The Ohio State University, where we will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the late Admiral Richard E. Byrd. Plan now to be in Columbus late October! A memorial service for the late Albert Paddock Crary will be held in the Herring- Cole Library at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York on June 25th at 2 PM. After the service there will be light refreshments. Attendees are requested to notify Mildred (3010 New Mexico Avenue N.W., Washington, DC 20016) so she can alert the University. Interment of ashes will be in the Crary family plot in the Pierrepont Cemetery at 4 PM. BRASH ICE This Newsletter was made possible by our failing to use several book reviews written during the year, so this is basically a pseudo book-review newsletter. It also gives us the opportunity to reprint a popular item, a listing of book dealers handling polar books. Some people want a Mid-winter picnic back at a very popular spot, Stronghold. If there's a valid reason for having it, your reser- vations will tell us, and we'll go ahead. If we can't meet a minimum number of attendees, we will cancel. Our last effort at Horsehead Sanctuary turned out to be a bust when only a handful attended, in spite of an exciting place and a great catered sea- food meal. One must remember that the Antarctican Society isn't what it was ten years ago; we are now a truly national organization, not just a local one. Our local membership has not increased in years, in spite of our offering an excellent lecture program. Meanwhile, our Washington-based membership has aged, becoming more and more stay-at-homers. This is our last Newsletter of the spring, and we'll see you folks in the fall. Have a good summer - we will! POLAR BOOK DEALERS. We are certainly no authority on polar book dealers, but being a prejudiced person by nature, we have our favorites and not-so-favorites. As an Antarctican, you have to feel kindly towards old Colin Bull, even though he was a Brit. He is the only Antarctic scientist who is attempting to feather his own nest through sales of books. We were very sympathetic towards Bob Peterson, as his prices were the best, but his very infrequent catalogs leave one frustrated Jay Platt puts out great catalogs, and his prices are fairly reasonable, but it seems that an immediate telephone call is often not soon enough, as he has a hungry bunch of buyers waiting for his catalogs. A lot of book buyers favor Bob Finch, but it's against our religion to have to pay for a polar book catalog, so we don't see his. David Belknap has a relatively large polar offering, and his prices seen to be somewhere between Jay's and Finch's. Our advice is, if you see something of interest in any of the catalogs, don't hesitate, call immediately, as he who sends in an order by mail will probably end up getting nothing. Thanks to John Millard, Art Ford, Warren Zapol, and Billy-Ace Baker for bringing to our attention some of the dealers listed below. UNITED STATES Antipodean David Belknap - Books West Side Book Shop (David & Kathy Lilburne) P.O. Box 1382, GMF (Jay Platt) P.O. Box 189 Boston, MA 02205 113 West Liberty Street Cold Spring, NY 10516 (617) 269-5061 Ann Arbor, MI 48103 (914) 424-3867 (313) 995-1891 Jean Farmer, Booksellers Blue Dragon Bookshop (Bob Peterson) 7644 Forrestal Road San P.O. Box 216 Ashland, OR 97520 Diego, CA 92120 (619) (503) 482-2142 287-0693 - 2 - UNITED STATES (cont.) Colin Bull, Polar Books High Latitude (Bob Finch) P.O. Box 4497 Rolling P.O. Box 11254 Bay, WA 98061 (206) Bainbridge Island, WA 98110 842-9660 (206) 842-0202 OVERSEAS Bluntisham Books Francis Edwards Oak House, East Street The Clocktower Bookshop Bluntisham, Huntingdon, Camb., PE17 3LS The Pavement, Hay-on-Wye England via Hereford HR3 5BU (phone) 487-840449 England Explorer Books XIV The Green Fallow Chase, Durfold Wood Calne, Wiltshire SN11 8DQ Plaistow, West Sussex RH14 OPL England England (phone) 0249-816793 Patrick J. Walcot - Books Francois et Rodolphe Chamonal 60 Sunnybank Road 40 Rue Le Peletier Sutton Coldfields, W. Midlands B73 5RJ 75009 Paris England France (phone) 21-382-6381 (phone) 878.14.41 Librarie Jean Polak Messrs. Berkelouw Marine et Voyages 8 P.O. Box 352 Rue de L'Echaude Bowral, NSW 2576 75006 Paris France Australia Kenneth Hince Gaston Renard, Fine & Rare Books 823 Glenhuntly Road G.P.O. Box 5235BB Caulfield South, Victoria 3162 Melbourne, Victoria 3001 Australia Australia (phone) 3-417-1044 ANTARCTIC CLASSICS COLLECTION (in association with Bluntisham Books). There are several elegantly reprinted and bound (in the period style of the turn of the cen- tury) Antarctic classics which some of you may want to obtain for your personal libraries. AURORA AUSTRALIS was the first book printed in Antarctica, prepared on the ice in 1908. This archival facsimile is the first public edition, has 216 pages and is bound in brown cloth-covered board, blocked in scarlet and gold on front and spine. Shackleton, Priestley, Mawson, David, Mackay and others on the expedition made contributions to the publication. Our own John Millard in Toronto, a genuine bibliophile, wrote the introduction. If you happen to be one of those poor souls who has an undying thirst to know more about Sir Clements Markham, past President of the Royal Geographical Society, and champion of Captain Robert Falcon Scott, there is another book entitled ANTARCTIC OBSESSION. Obsessed with a goal dating back to 1870 of seeing the British explore Antarctica and reach the South Pole, Markham's confidential and outspoken accounts have been published for the first time, thanks to Sir Peter Scott who gifted the manuscript to the Scott Polar Research Institute. This volume has 208 pages, and is bound in red cloth, blocked in gold on - 3 - front and spine. The American prices listed are $48 for AURORA AUSTRALIS, and $29 for ANTARCTIC OBSESSION. If you are interested, contact Archival Facsimiles Ltd., Robert P.S. Easton, 230 East Ontario, Chicago, IL 60611, (phone 312-988-9331), and he will tell you how many greenbacks he wants for the books. Let's hope he types a reply because his penmanship is horrid, looking like a series of waves hitting the beachhead of Normandy.