Cruise of the "Alert". Four years in Patagonian Polynesian and Mascarene waters (1878-82). ...

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London: W. Swan Sonnenschein and Co. 1885. 8vo. Orig. illust. cloth. Gilt. E.g. (xvi 256pp.). With frontisp. 15 full-page woodcut plates and 2 text-illusts. NOTE: Exploration to investigate the nature and exact position of certain doubtful reefs and islands in the South Pacific Ocean and of surveying a portion of the Northern and Western Coasts of Australia. With reference to the fauna and flora.